Occupied vs This Is Not a Film
Occupied has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for This Is Not a Film). Occupied is the shorter watch at 48m compared with 1h 18m. This Is Not a Film is the older of the two (2011 against 2022). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Occupied
This Is Not a Film| Occupied | This Is Not a Film | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2011 |
| Length | 48m | 1h 18m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Albina Kovalyova | Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb |
| Main cast | Dzhafer Umerov, Dmytro Bahnenko, Lidia Biletska | Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Rakhsan |
Synopsis
Occupied
Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.
This Is Not a Film
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life…
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