In the 20 years since it began, the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival has grown into an August institution, regularly filling the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center.

Daniel Roher's powerful new film Navalny, screened this week as part of the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, tells the harrowing story of Alexei Navalny, one of Russia's leading political dissidents.

Martha's Vineyard Film Society hosts its annual Documentary Week August 1 to 5.

The documentary film The Story Won't Die premieres at the Grange Hall on July 28.

The fast-paced and urgent documentary Navalny arrives on the Vineyard next week.

It’s not every documentary that tells the story of how it came about at the very start.