This year’s Sundance Film Festival is online, but that doesn’t mean it can’t program a secret screening. Just added is Daniel Roher’s documentary thriller Navalny, which wil…
which will make its world premiere 6 p.m. MT on January 25 as the 10th and final title in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. Roher had unparalleled access to Navalny and his inner circle for the documentary.
In August 2020, a plane traveling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. One of its passengers, Navalny, was deathly ill. After he was taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin, German authorities confirmed that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government. President Vladimir Putin immediately cast doubt on the findings and denied any involvement.
Said Roher: “Boldly confronting injustice through cinematic storytelling has been threaded into Sundance’s DNA since its inception. My team and I can’t imagine premiering at any other festival. We are thrilled that Sundance audiences will be the first to see our film and witness the extraordinary courage of Alexei Navalny.”Previous secret screenings, which occurred during live editions of Sundance, have included which follows Robbie Robertson’s young life and the rise of The Band.
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