Welcome to Chechnya: Inside the Russian Republic’s Deadly War on Gays
Welcome to Chechnya: Inside the Russian Republic’s Deadly War on Gays Welcome to Chechnya: Inside the Russian Republic’s Deadly War on Gays PG12
大衛 法蘭斯(David France)
美國 / 2020 / Color / 107mins
2020 日舞影展 – 美國紀錄片單元 最佳剪輯獎
2020 柏林影展 – 泰迪熊行動家獎、觀眾票選最佳紀錄片獎
「《沒有彩虹的國度》是部恐怖片，但同時也見證了群眾面對高壓時無懼的一面。你無法否定『這種人』的存在，因為他們確實存在，且如同片中所指涉，他們不只是英雄，更是生存與毀滅之間的最後一道防線。」— 滾石雜誌
車臣是位於東歐的前蘇聯國家之一，在早期的極權統治和人稱「小卡迪羅夫」的拉姆贊・卡迪羅夫領導之下，發展成民風極為保守的所在。2017年以來，公權力根據小卡迪羅夫頒布的政策「合法」扣留、虐待、甚至處死當地LGBTQ族群人士，藉以「淨化血統」。本片導演大衛・法蘭斯深入採訪記錄，將惡行公諸於世，也利用「深偽技術」保護鏡頭下的這些非凡抗爭者們的真實面貌，同時讓更多人看見他們在這個壓抑與封閉的國度內，面對日漸高張的反同殺戮下的無懼身影及勇氣。
導演簡介
大衛 法蘭斯，紀錄片導演，同時也是紐時暢銷書作家和獲獎肯定的調查記者。首部紀錄片《瘟疫求生指南》曾入圍第85屆奧斯卡最佳紀錄長片；另外也曾以網飛原創紀錄片《瑪莎・強森之死》囊括了許多影展獎項；《沒有彩虹的國度》則是他執導的第三部紀錄片。
2020 Sundance Film Festival - U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing
2020 Berlin International Film Festival - Teddy Activist Award, Panorama Publikums (Audience Award) for Best Documentary
"Welcome to Chechnya is a horror movie, but it's also a collective profile in courage. You can't say that "such people" are not here. They are, and they're not just heroes, the movie suggests. They're the last thing standing between survival and a purge." - The Rolling Stone Magazine.
Since 2017, Chechnya's tyrannical leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has waged a depraved operation to "cleanse the blood", to detain, torture and execute LGBTIQ people. Director David France uses a remarkable approach to anonymity to expose this atrocity and tell the story of this extraordinary group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
About the Director
Director David France's first debut documentary, How to Survive A Plague, was nominated at the 85th Academy Awards. His second documentary, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a Netflix Original Documentary, won numerous festival prizes and awards. Director David is also New York Times Bestselling Author and Award-Winning Investigative Journalist.
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