Dazed Club screens Tuner in London with Black Bear

May 19. Dazed Club and Black Bear screened Tuner in London. Small room, invite list, Daniel Roher's first fiction feature after the Oscar win for Navalny. Crime thriller this time, not documentary. Leo Woodall plays the tuner.

Roher's previous work leaned investigative: Navalny tracked Alexei Navalny through poisoning and exile, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2023. Tuner marks the turn to scripted narrative. The premise: a gifted young piano tuner gets pulled into something darker than concert prep. Woodall, known for The White Lotus and quiet-intensity roles, carries the lead.

The screening itself felt less premiere, more controlled test. Dazed's club night format tilts toward insiders and early readers. Black Bear, the production house behind Uncut Gems and The Inspection, co-hosted. No red carpet. No wide release date announced. The film premiered at a festival in 2025, then sat. This was the first London showing.

Roher's shift from documentary to fiction isn't unusual, but the gap between Navalny's geopolitical weight and a crime thriller about a piano tuner reads like a deliberate exhale. No manifesto in the program notes. Just: fiction, crime, Woodall. The room watched, left. No after-party chatter made it past the exits.

Tuner doesn't have a distributor locked for wide release yet. Black Bear tends to hold tight on projects until the right partner shows up. The Dazed screening reads as positioning: taste-level check, not mass rollout. If the room liked it, the next room will be bigger.