Deepfake technology unlocks real stories of LGBTQ persecution in Welcome to Chechnya
Welcome to Chechnya, screening online as part of MIFF 68½, is a bracing documentary. This film is part of a queer trilogy of sorts for filmmaker and investigative reporter David France, who also directed 2012's How to Survive a Plague (for which he received an Oscar nomination) and 2017's The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. This third […]