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Olivia Popp


231 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

Red Path and To a Land Unknown win big at the fourth Red Sea Film Festival

Red Path and To a Land Unknown win big at the fourth Red Sea Film Festival

Little Jaffna, Songs of Adam and My Driver and I have emerged as the other European feature-length co-productions that received accolades  

13/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024 | Awards

Hédi Zardi • Head, Atlas Workshops

Interview: Hédi Zardi • Head, Atlas Workshops

“We have powerful stories – what I felt this year was that the filmmakers had the ability to absorb their reality”

The current head of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops speaks about the highlights of this year’s industry programme and how it trains up-and-coming talent from the region  

10/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024 | Atlas Workshops

Review: The Vanishing

Review: The Vanishing

Karim Moussaoui’s film follows a privileged young man in Algiers who starts to break at the seams, but its bland narrative and lack of stakes drag the story down  

10/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Baya Kasmi, Félix Moati • Director of and actor in Mikado

Interview: Baya Kasmi, Félix Moati • Director of and actor in Mikado

“Everybody wanted me to continue doing comedies, but this felt like a discovery for me, a new dawn”

The director and star of the French film share their views on making a movie with those who feel like family and relating to marginalised social perspectives in their own ways  

09/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Review: MA – Cry of Silence

Review: MA – Cry of Silence

The Maw Naing’s film merges class conflicts with protest against the military junta, inspired by women-led factory uprisings that occurred in 2012  

09/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays triumphs at Marrakech

Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays triumphs at Marrakech

The film also collected twin Best Actress gongs, while Damian Kocur’s Under the Volcano emerged as another double winner for Best Director and Best Actor  

09/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024 | Awards

Jean-Claude Barny, Alexandre Bouyer • Director of and actor in Fanon

Interview: Jean-Claude Barny, Alexandre Bouyer • Director of and actor in Fanon

“What's interesting is to bring him back into the world of the living and not into the world of a posthumous icon”

The director and star talk about how they crafted their portrayal of Martiniquan intellectual Frantz Fanon on screen, and how they connected with others who identify with his story  

06/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

REPORT: Atlas Workshops 2024

REPORT: Atlas Workshops 2024

The seventh edition of Marrakech’s industry platform includes five exciting European co-productions that have begun to pique interest  

06/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024 | Atlas Workshops

Dania Reymond-Boughenou • Director of Silent Storms

Interview: Dania Reymond-Boughenou • Director of Silent Storms

“I think I have the subconscious desire to give a colour and a texture to invisible things”

The debuting writer-director shares how she brought to life the buried emotions of loss incurred during the Algerian Civil War through different cinematic elements  

06/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Review: Fanon

Review: Fanon

Jean-Claude Barny makes the life and legacy of Martiniquan anti-colonial intellectual, psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon accessible without losing the essence of his work  

06/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

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