On 22 August 2020, Cinema for Peace organized an emergency medical transport of Russian opposition candidate and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny to a Berlin hospital, after his suspected poisoning was recorded in a photograph and on video. Cinema for Peace Foundation's Jaka Bizilj was interviewed at the hospital as Navalny remained in a coma. On 02 September, the German government announced Navalny had been poisoned by nerve agent Novichok.