‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Director Reacts to U.S. Sanctions Against Chechen Leader
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDavid France, the director of “Welcome to Chechnya,” can’t say for sure that his documentary played a role in pushing the U.S. government to place sanctions on the country’s leader, but it certainly looks that way.The film, about the Chechen government’s sanctioned arrests and torture of LGBTQ people in the autonomous Russian region, premiered less than a month ago on HBO.