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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

An interfaith film jury, including an INTERFILM representative for the first time, awarded the Faith in Film Award 2025 to François Ozon's "When Fall Is Coming".
The Protestant Film Jury in Germany has chosen the Italian film "C'e ancora domani" (Tomorrow is another day) by Paola Cortellesi as FILM OF THE YEAR 2024.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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