The trailer for Oscar-nominated director David France‘s latest documentary, Welcome to Chechnya, has just been released.
As with France’s previous documentary, How to Survive a Plague, Welcome to Chechnya channels righteous rage at the horror of discrimination against the LGBTQ community. Welcome to Chechnya explores the anti-queer purges in Eastern Europe, namely in Russia and the Russian-controlled republic of Chechnya.
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France’s new documentary features interviews with LGBTQ activists and survivors in Russia and Chechnya, and focuses on Rainbow Railroad, a grassroots organization that smuggles queer people to safety in other nations. The film also explores the indifference of the US government in aiding in this humanitarian crisis.
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Welcome to Chechnya arrives on HBO June 30.
Chrisk
You couldn’t create a better evil Bond villain character then Kadyrov. You just know he’s a sociopath. He’ll only be removed by a bullet.
iminheatlikeacat
That guys face makes my skin crawl with his creepy shark eyes
James
Where’s the International Court of Justice arresting this evil nazi trash.
Kangol2
Putin protects Kadyrov, but wait, are you calling for Putin, a known homophobe, also to be arrested? Or just the Chechen monster?