OSCARS WATCH 2025 – Anora

This post is part of a series of critical responses to the films nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards.

With this video essay, Green and Red perform a poetic analysis of both the style and content of Best Picture nominee Anora, evoking Kogonada's use of the dotted line and the driving poetic force of Catherine Grant's "Carnal Locomotive."

The following video contains some nudity and references mature content.

For creating a world for a face. For pushing the idea of creating a film for an actor to its limits. For seizing control of the world amidst the uncontrollable guerilla filmmaking. For seeing light in the darkest places, rising from the east. In Farsi, Pomegranate is Anaar انار)), Light is Noor نور)), and this is Anora (آنورا).

Green and Red: Kasra Karbasi and Amin Komijani.

Audiovisual essayists, writers, cinephiles. Based in Iran.