Oscar-nominee David France has teamed up with HBO for a documentary about Chechnya’s ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution. Welcome to Chechnya focuses on a small group of Russian activists – often with hidden cameras – as they help vulnerable queer people escape capture, torture and even execution from the government as part of their horrifying ‘gay purge’.
HBO says the film will expose “Chechnya’s underreported atrocities while highlighting a group of people who are confronting brutality head-on,”