David France

Director
Screenwriter
Producer

David France

Director
Screenwriter
Producer

“I like to think that Welcome To Chechnya is… a story about love. It’s a story about the way that community shows love for itself and for strangers within the community and people they’d never met; the lengths that they go to and the incredible risk just to rescue these strangers and bring them back to health in the safe houses and find ways to accompany them to their new lives.”

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WELCOME TO CHECHNYA

DAVID FRANCE United States, 2020

Director David France (How to Survive a Plague) captures the work of LGBT+ activists in Russia in this urgent, award-winning documentary. Using deepfake technology to protect the subjects’ anonymity, Welcome to Chechnya remains, above all, a tender and empathic masterwork of political filmmaking.