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Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge
Welcome to Chechnya: The Queer Purge lays bare the Russian Federation republic's deadly war against its queer citizens. Countless victims have been killed and hundreds more are missing. With the LGBTQ group living in terror and secrecy, this brave and searing film follows the underground team fighting to rescue them before it is too late.
Since 2017, Chechnya’s tyrannical chief Ramzan Kadyrov has waged a depraved operation to ‘cleanse the blood’ of LGBTQ Chechens, overseeing a government-directed campaign to detain, torture and execute them. With no aid from the Kremlin, and only faint global condemnation, activists have taken matters into their possess hands. From a safe house in a secret location in Russia, they risk their hold lives by running rescue missions into Chechnya and providing temporary shelter.
This production follows the exceptional bravery of the activists and Chechens whose lives are being threatened. Deploying a groundbreaking, recent digital ‘face-double’ way that has never been used before in documentary film-making, the identities of those most at risk are protected. By the shut of the clip, 151 people acquire been located with
Olly Alexander: Growing up Gay
Recent figures demonstrate that more than 40 per cent of LGBT+ people will experience a significant mental health problem, compared to around 25 per cent of the whole population, and are more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide.
In this eye-opening film, young pop culture icon Olly Alexander explores why the gay people is more vulnerable to mental health issues, as he opens up about his own long-term battles with depression. As the outspoken frontman of British band Years and Years, Olly is a powerful voice on mental health, bullying and LGBT+ rights. He has broken taboos with music videos that celebrate queer identities and spoken openly about his retain sexuality as skillfully as his continuing struggles with anxiety.
In the film, Olly joins young people on their journeys battling issues that parallel his have - from homophobic bullying to eating and anxiety disorders - and along the way he asks what can be done to address them.
40 Essential LGBTQ+ Documentaries
(Photo by ©Off White Productions/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.)
Queer cinema hinges on stories about the one and the many. LGBTQ+ documentary films, though, can only ever propose both: portraits of individuals necessarily speak more broadly about the community they come to represent, while chronicles of a team (or a family, or a segment of the population) can only ever do so through individual testimonials and the unique vision of the filmmaker at hand. Films appreciate Portrait of Jason and Tongues Untied,for instance, narrate contemporary viewers as much about the individual stories about gay Black men presented on screen as about the communities (real and imagined) that their respective filmmakers brought to bear on their finished films. The following list of LGBTQ+ documentaries proposals us windows into the past, allowing us glimpses into moments made worthy by their mere documentation.
Yet to say nonfiction filmmaking has merely documented the LGBTQ+ community is to sell short the work that some of the seminal documentaries listed below possess accomplished. Projects like 1977’s Word is Out, which compiled testimonials from men and
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Lover of Men examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars, historical recreations and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s affectionate relationships with men.
Lover of Men widens its lens into the history of human sexual fluidity and focuses on the profound differences between sexual mores of the nineteenth century and those we hold today. The clip fills in an important missing piece of American history and challenges the audience to think about why we hold such a limited view of human sexuality.
Lover of Men is not only an exploration of gender roles and sexual identity, but also serves as an examination of American intolerance.
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