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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Persepolis, it uses expressive animation to confront personal memory, political violence and the lasting cost of history, balancing intimate reflection with striking visual invention.
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Why this pick
Its hand-drawn storytelling finds resilience and imagination amid political oppression, echoing Persepolis’s clear-eyed coming-of-age perspective and humane emotional force.
03
Why this pick
This deceptively simple stop-motion drama shares Persepolis’s ability to view difficult adult realities through a young person’s candid, compassionate eyes.
04
Why this pick
A memoir rendered through animation, it similarly turns displacement, identity and painful recollection into a direct, personal political story without losing warmth.
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Why this pick
This rotoscoped, interwoven portrait of contemporary Tehran shares Persepolis’s frank engagement with social constraint, though in a more explicitly adult and bleaker register.
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01 / THE STORY
At the Paris-Orly Airport in France, an Iranian woman, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi, looks at the flight schedule; her eyes come to rest on a listing bound for Tehran. She then takes a seat, smokes a cigarette, and reflects on her childhood.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Marjane adulte et adolescente (voice)
Grand-mère de Marjane (voice)
Anouche
Père de Marjane (voice)
Mère de Marjane (voice)
Lali (voice)
Walla (voice)
Walla (voice)
