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 ...

Social media users are sharing a video of a man and woman being shot, claiming it shows Ukrainian military violence against civilians in Chechnya. The clip, however, is from a 2014 French film by an ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev was gifted a piece of land in Pankisi by his mother. A Georgian valley region ...

Paris-based international sales and production company Totem Films have boarded debutant Malika Musaeva’s “The Cage is Looking for a Bird,” which will receive its world premiere in the Encounters ...

"Memory," Vladlena Sandu's war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of its world premiere on the Lido. A personal project, "Memory" is a feature ...

FOR A SMALL territory of 1.5m people, Chechnya has played a big role in shaping modern Russia. The Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s were the only large conflicts, among those that followed ...

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 ...

Cannes: Déni Oumar Pitsaev travels to the proxy homeland of Pankisi and confronts his family, weighs building a house, and evades questions of marriage. In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar ...

“Memory,” Vladlena Sandu’s war-themed drama that will open Venice Days, has been boarded by Paris-based Loco Films ahead of its world premiere on the Lido. A personal project, “Memory” is a feature ...

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 ...