Welcome to Chechnya

Inside the Russian Republic's deadly war on gays

Directed by David France

Produced by HBO Documentary Films, Public Square Films

A harrowing, intimate documentary that follows LGBTQ activists risking their lives to expose systematic persecution in Chechnya, balancing dark subject matter with profound human courage.

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.