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Film scholar
Country of origin
Slovakia

Andrej Chovanec (*1990) is a film scholar born in Slovakia and working in the Czech Republic. Currently he is a PhD student at the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the Palacký University in Olomouc. He lectured for one semester at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (2017) and he was a member of a jury at the Animafilm festival in Baku (2018). He is mainly interested in Soviet, Czechoslovak and Iranian cinema. He writes for the Czech journals "Film a doba" and "Film & spiritualita", and he is a co-author of anthologies devoted to Azerbaijani animation and feature films by Jan Švankmajer. His hobbies include Russian and Persian languages and hiking.

Festivals

Current issues

"Look at Me..." Award 2024
At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".
Ecumenical Reception at the IFFMH 2024
Sascha Keilholz, director of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, in his greetings at the Ecumenical Reception reflects the actual political challenges after the US elections and the threats to democracy.

Events

11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
Get Together - Meeting with the 8th Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2023
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26.04.2023
Budapest
In Uncertain Times
In Budapest at the end of April 2023 INTERFILM is organising a seminar on the history of Hungarian film and the current situation in Central and Eastern Europe.
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