That’s Navalny. Courtesy of SIFF
The first time I met director Daniel Roher, he was having a conversation with a quite serious-looking Woody Harrelson. This is because Woody, as well as a small film festival audience in Idaho, had just seen Roher’s documentary Navalny. Focused on Russian opposition leader and Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, it takes us into his life leading up to when he was poisoned in August of 2020. It then tracks Navalny’s recovery over the next five months, culminating in his eventual return to Russia where he was arrested and has been held since.
Sundance showed the documentary as their “secret” film this year, where