Ahead of next month’s Oscars ceremony, The Globe and Mail caught up with the Toronto-born Roher to discuss balancing success with guilt, and his hopes for what might be next
It’s been a surreal time. For me, it’s a gigantic relief, because before he went back to Moscow, Navalny asked me to get the film nominated for an Oscar. I said, Alexey, I can’t promise you I’ll do that, but I will work as hard as I can to try. And that’s what I did. To have accomplished that mission, to bring attention to his plight and mission, that’s why this honour is so meaningful. Somewhere in a very cold, very dark solitary-confinement cell, Navalny received good news.
It’s been an overwhelming expansion of my universe. But it’s been very bittersweet. Personal success, career success, all of these things that I’m experiencing are predicated on a man being enclosed in a small jail cell. I’ve felt a great deal of guilt. But I knew he was going to go back to Moscow no matter what I did or didn’t film, so just being able to bear witness and document history, I take solace in that.
I think my risk assessment remains the same. But there is fear associated with some of my colleagues, including [Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev], who was recently added to Russia’s most-wanted list. There are plans for them to assassinate him, and that’s scary and dangerous. But it doesn’t affect his or my resolve. I take solace in what I was able to do to help Navalny.
The Oscars, it’s glitzy and exciting, but it doesn’t really do it for me. I’m very excited and grateful for the recognition that comes with the nomination, but the pomp and circumstance of the show itself ... for a lot of other people, it would be a lot more exciting. I’m getting married two weeks after the Oscars, so I’m much more looking forward to that.
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