Alexei Navalny’s sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished.
Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival programmed the documentary Navalny in honor of the Russian opposition leader and democratic reformer, who died in an Arctic prison in northern Russia on February 16. The film directed by Daniel Roher won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature almost exactly a year ago.
Navalny examines the anti-corruption crusader’s effort to investigate an incident in 2020 in which he fell grievously ill after being secretly dosed with the neurotoxin Novichok. With help from a Bulgarian investigative journalist, Navalny determined the assassination plot had been implemented by Kremlin agents. After recuperating in Germany, Navalny made the fateful decision to return to Russia in 2021, whereupon he was immediately arrested and later tried and imprisoned.
Alexei Navalny in Moscow’s City Court on May 24, 2022
The TiDF program writes,...
Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival programmed the documentary Navalny in honor of the Russian opposition leader and democratic reformer, who died in an Arctic prison in northern Russia on February 16. The film directed by Daniel Roher won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature almost exactly a year ago.
Navalny examines the anti-corruption crusader’s effort to investigate an incident in 2020 in which he fell grievously ill after being secretly dosed with the neurotoxin Novichok. With help from a Bulgarian investigative journalist, Navalny determined the assassination plot had been implemented by Kremlin agents. After recuperating in Germany, Navalny made the fateful decision to return to Russia in 2021, whereupon he was immediately arrested and later tried and imprisoned.
Alexei Navalny in Moscow’s City Court on May 24, 2022
The TiDF program writes,...
- 3/9/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Cph:Forum, the financing and co-production event on the industry programme of Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, has selected new projects from the producers of Flee and Cow for its 2024 edition; and has refreshed its industry awards with six prizes.
Danish producer Signe Byrge Sorensen will participate with Freedom (working title), directed by Camilla Nielsson, who previously made Sundance 2021 title President about a challenger in Zimbabwe’s corrupt presidential elections.
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Sorensen is CEO of Danish documentary production house Final Cut For Real, which has made films including The Killing Of A Journalist,...
Danish producer Signe Byrge Sorensen will participate with Freedom (working title), directed by Camilla Nielsson, who previously made Sundance 2021 title President about a challenger in Zimbabwe’s corrupt presidential elections.
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Sorensen is CEO of Danish documentary production house Final Cut For Real, which has made films including The Killing Of A Journalist,...
- 2/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Iceland Documentary Film Festival ran July 19-23.
IceDocs – the Iceland Documentary Film Festival – hosted its first industry programme as part of the festival’s fifth edition this year, which ran July 19-23.
Industry speakers included Wouter Jansen from Square Eyes; Brigid O’Shea from Documentary Association of Europe; Helle Hansen, now a consultant and former commissioner at Norwegian Film Institute and Danish Film Institute, Clare Willats, producer and former head of Nordic film at Netflix; Tiago Costa from Cinemateca Portuguesa and Christof Wehmeier from the Icelandic Film Centre.
Against The Tide (India/France), directed by Sarvnik Kaur about two indigenous...
IceDocs – the Iceland Documentary Film Festival – hosted its first industry programme as part of the festival’s fifth edition this year, which ran July 19-23.
Industry speakers included Wouter Jansen from Square Eyes; Brigid O’Shea from Documentary Association of Europe; Helle Hansen, now a consultant and former commissioner at Norwegian Film Institute and Danish Film Institute, Clare Willats, producer and former head of Nordic film at Netflix; Tiago Costa from Cinemateca Portuguesa and Christof Wehmeier from the Icelandic Film Centre.
Against The Tide (India/France), directed by Sarvnik Kaur about two indigenous...
- 7/26/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Review‘The Killing of a Journalist’ on the 2018 murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina is an exposé on a democracy that had rotted from the inside, controlled by a nexus of oligarchs and people on their payroll.As an investigative reporter and the lead narrator of The Killing of a Journalist on the 2018 brutal murder of her colleague Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia, every pixel in the film would have by now been hardwired into Pavla Holcová’s memories. Yet the Czech journalist sat with her head slightly tilted to the left gazing intently at the screen as the 100-minute film had its India premiere at the Ems Hall in Kochi, Kerala, on the morning of Sunday, March 26. Packed with CCTV footage, archived pressers, police testimonies, interviews, and incriminating details from several terabytes of a data dump that was leaked to the journalists investigating the double murder,...
- 3/28/2023
- by AjayR
- The News Minute
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