Documentary “Navalny” nominated for “Oscar”

The documentary “Navalny” by Canadian director Daniel Roer was nominated for an Oscar film award. The film was nominated in the Best Feature Documentary category. This is reported on website American Academy of Motion Picture Arts. The award ceremony will take place on March 12.

The film is dedicated to the life of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Now he is serving a term in a strict regime colony No. 6 in Melehovo, Vladimir Region. Daniel Roher began filming the film shortly after the politician’s coma emerged from a coma at the Charité in Berlin in 2020. Filming continued until the arrest of Alexei Navalny in 2021. The director himself designated the genre of the film as a political thriller.

The shortlisted category for Best Feature Documentary also included All That Breathes by Indian director Shaunak Sena, All Beauty and Bloodshed by American director Laura Poitras, Volcano of Love by American director Sarah Dosa, and House of Chips. Danish documentary filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont.

The Navalny film was announced on January 13, 2022. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2022. The television release took place on April 24 on CNN. The film was also shortlisted for the BAFTA Awards.

In February 2021, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison in the Yves Rocher case. In 2022, he was sentenced to nine years under the article on fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and insulting participants in the trial (part 1 and part 2 of article 297 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Nine years is the term for the totality of all punishments.

Lusine Balasyan