Waiting for Color
Directed by Kosta Karakashyan · Starring Kosta Karakashyan, Venya Gushchin, Ksenia Voronkova · 2018
Dancers embody the testimonies of gay men persecuted in Chechnya in 2017, translating surveillance, brutality and despair into movement.
Raw testimony and charged choreography combine into a haunting portrait of state persecution.
WAITING FOR COLOR is a documentary dance film revealing the harsh reality of LGBTQ+ persecution in the Chechen region of Russia. The contents of the film were inspired by testimonials of the arrests, torture, and blackm
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