Welcome to Chechnya

Employing a guerilla style, this highly charged documentary slips inside the fraught day-to-day struggle of an underground pipeline of activists, who undertake unimaginable risks while striving to rescue LGBTQUIA+ victims from Chechen government’s “cleansing” campaign. In an environment of oppression and hatred, where countless members of the LGBTQUIA+ community are detained, tortured, gone missing, executed or, in the best-case scenario, living in the utmost terror, a vast network of solidarity works in the shadows. A searing journey through the darkness of obscurantism that uncovers unreported atrocities while lauding the astonishing courage of an extraordinary group of people.