Andrej Chovanec

Film researcher | Exploring Iranian cinema, literature, history, and the Persian language

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My selection of the 10 best pre-revolutionary Iranian films 🇮🇷👇🔽
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Finding Iranian films online isn't always easy. I've put together a complete guide covering the best streaming platforms, free legal options, and Blu-ray labels to help you discover Iranian cinema. https://t.co/2VXiOgLEk1

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Read my new essay on the Iran Zamin Cinema🇮🇷 �� 🔽
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Read my new review on the Iran Zamin Cinema🇮🇷📷 🔽
https://t.co/25FJq79YbT

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Read my new review on the Iran Zamin Cinema🇮🇷📷 🔽
https://t.co/2ucD5guSzr

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Maybe the real question is not whether Rahim deserves to be called a hero — but why we are so eager to create heroes in the first place, only to dismantle them the moment they look human. Read more 👇🔽
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What makes someone a hero today — an honest act, or the story built around it?

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What is fascinating is how quickly admiration can turn into doubt. We often think truth protects people, yet public opinion usually wants something simpler than truth: a perfect narrative. And no real person can fully fit into one.

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Read my new article on the Iran Zamin Cinema 👇

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@CanetCinema I’m glad Parajanov is becoming more widely known. The Color of Pomegranates remains one of the most original films ever made, bringing together ideas he had already been developing in his earlier short and documentary works, as well as in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.

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@AJEnglish You cannot sabotage diplomacy, return with threats and still call it negotiation

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@CinemaCrimes what is striking in The wind will carry us is how the landscape gradually becomes part of the protagonist’s inner transformation, without ever announcing it directly

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@FoxNews It is hard to call this diplomacy when military pressure comes first and dialogue second

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Sometimes cinema becomes most powerful not when characters speak, but when the world around them refuses to change — and we begin to understand how heavy that stillness can be.
If you'd like to read more, here is my review on the film 🔽👇
https://t.co/TXIhvWVkB4

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One of the most radical things a film can do is refuse drama when drama is exactly what we expect.

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That choice turns everyday routine into something quietly political. Instead of telling us what to feel, the film makes us sit inside a life where social pressure is constant but rarely loud. The strongest conflict happens in hints, pauses, and repetition.

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@mubiusa What I like about Asako I & II is how it shows love caught between memory and the present. Hamaguchi keeps that uncertainty present without forcing an answer

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@CNN Every step like this makes de-escalation harder, while ordinary people in the region will once again bear the consequences of decisions made far above them