1500 Posvar Hall
Join us for a documentary film on lawyer and political activist Aleksei Navalny, who died suddenly in the GULag last month just before Putin’s re-election. The screening of Daniel Roher’s 2022 US documentary Navalny (runtime 98’; in English; free admission; in-person only) will be introduced by television critic, poet, and journalist Dmitry Bykov, who (like Navalny) was poisoned (though unsuccessfully) in April 2019 under circumstances that have been linked to other state poisonings. Bykov will lead a discussion after the screening.
A political activist for two decades, Aleksei Naval’nyi has espoused disparate controversial views, but became a beacon of social and political change within the Russian Federation and internationally. He was recognized as 2017 and 2019 Politician of the Year by the Russian business newspaper Vedemosti. In October 2021, he received the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies (REEES), the Cultural Studies Program, the Dean’s Office of the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences; the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, the Nordenberg Chair in the Center for International Legal Education (CILE), and the Program for Film & Media Studies.
Awards
- Best Documentary. British Academy Film Awards (2023)
- Best Documentary Feature. Academy Awards (2023)
- Audience Award (US documentary). Sundance Film Festival (2022)
- Best Political Documentary. Critics' Choice (2022)
