Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. You can do anything with a face on screen these days, whether it’s shaving decades off with a ...

First-time writer-director Malika Musaeva is set to make history at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, where her female-centered coming-of-age drama “The Cage is Looking for a Bird” is ...

The ongoing anti-LGBTQ purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya is exposed in David France's harrowing but heart-filling documentary. You can do anything with a face on screen these days, whether ...

For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare. The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in 2017 the Chechen government launched an outright purge against perceived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First-time writer-director Malika Musaeva is set to make history at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, where her ...

In 2017, Russia’s Chechen Republic declared open season on LGBTQ people, launching what Human Rights Watch has called a “vicious large-scale anti-gay purge.” David France, director of the HBO ...

Advocacy meets suspense in “Welcome to Chechnya,” a chilling examination of both the brutality that the Chechen LGBT community is forced to face on a daily basis and the difficulty of leaving the ...

In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev was gifted a piece of land in Pankisi by his mother. A Georgian valley region at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains near the Chechen border, Pankisi ...

Over the course of his filmmaking career, David France has made urgent political documentaries about LGBTQ rights, first with the AIDS pandemic and the founders of ACT UP (the Oscar-nominated “How to ...