One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage vs This Is Not a Film

One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for This Is Not a Film). This Is Not a Film is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 21m. This Is Not a Film is the older of the two (2011 against 2019). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage posterOne Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage2019 VS This Is Not a Film posterThis Is Not a Film2011
One Mind: A Zen PilgrimageThis Is Not a Film
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.9/10
Year20192011
Length1h 21m1h 18m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorEdward A. BurgerJafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Main cast–Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Rakhsan

Synopsis

One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage

ONE MIND is an immersive cinematic meditation on Zen monastic life in China, where a communion of nature, meditation, and labor reveals a carefully crafted way of life that reflects the very wisdom it seeks to cultivate.

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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