Welcome to Chechnya
Documentary
6.8/10
|US
|en
|107 min
Release Date: 2020-01-26
Overview - This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
Production Companies
HBO Documentary FilmsPublic Square FilmsDavid France & Joy A. Tomchin FilmNinety Thousand WordsMaylo FilmsBBC Storyville
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
At times this is quite an harrowing documentary to watch as the intimate style of photography illustrates well the persecution of homosexuality in the breakaway eponymous Russian Republic. With President Putin's administration in Moscow denying any systematic abuse of these people, it's left to the local bully-boy governor Ramzan Kadyrov to deny that there are any gay folks in Chechnya and if ther...
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