Occupied vs On the Impossibility of an Homage

Occupied and On the Impossibility of an Homage are tied on audience score (10/10). On the Impossibility of an Homage is the shorter watch at 19m compared with 48m. Occupied is the older of the two (2022 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Occupied posterOccupied2022 VS On the Impossibility of an Homage posterOn the Impossibility of an Homage2024
OccupiedOn the Impossibility of an Homage
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20222024
Length48m19m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Germany
DirectorAlbina KovalyovaXandra Popescu
Main castDzhafer Umerov, Dmytro Bahnenko, Lidia BiletskaGabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu

Synopsis

Occupied

Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.

On the Impossibility of an Homage

Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.

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