The festival in Greece shifted online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
David France’s Welcome To Chechnya has won a hat-trick of awards at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The film, which chronicles the ongoing anti-lgbtq persecution raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya, won the festival’s top prize – the Golden Alexander award – which comes with a cash prize of €15,000. It also won the Mermaid Award, presented to the festival’s best Lgbtqi-themed film, and the Fipresci prize.
The documentary, produced by New York-based Public Square Films and BBC Storyville, debuted at...
David France’s Welcome To Chechnya has won a hat-trick of awards at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The film, which chronicles the ongoing anti-lgbtq persecution raging in the Russian republic of Chechnya, won the festival’s top prize – the Golden Alexander award – which comes with a cash prize of €15,000. It also won the Mermaid Award, presented to the festival’s best Lgbtqi-themed film, and the Fipresci prize.
The documentary, produced by New York-based Public Square Films and BBC Storyville, debuted at...
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