Olivia Popp 231 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 13/06/2025. previous page: 1 2 3 ... 10 11 [12] 13 14 ... 22 23 24 next Aisha Can’t Fly Away and Princesse Téné scoop the top prizes at this year’s Atlas WorkshopsOther winners included Lina Soualem’s Alicante, Abdallah Al Khatib’s Chronicles from the Siege and Linda Lô’s Lucky Girl 06/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024 | Atlas Workshops/AwardsReview: Silent StormsIn Dania Reymond-Boughenou’s speculative debut feature, the weight of Algerian Civil War history cannot physically be held back in a community confronted by mysterious events 03/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024Review: The Thousand and One Days of Hajj EdmondSimone Bitton weaves together an elegiac love letter to lesser-known Moroccan Jewish writer and intellectual Edmond Amran El Maleh 03/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024The inaugural African-European Distribution Academy draws to a closeThe programme boldly aims to improve exchange, access and networks between distributors and other media professionals in the African and European film markets 02/12/2024 | Industry | Market | Germany/Europe/AfricaThe fourth Red Sea International Film Festival finalises its full programme line-upRunning from 5-14 December, the Saudi event taking place in Jeddah boasts 16 films in its competition line-up, a breadth of Saudi flicks and a multitude of critics’ darlings from around the world 29/11/2024 | Red Sea 2024Review: The Southern ChroniclesIgnas Miškinis’s film tells a charming coming-of-age tale about a working-class boy navigating love and societal expectations in the early years of Lithuania’s independence 29/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Baltic Film CompetitionReview: ShadowlandOtso Tiainen conducts an examination of director Richard Stanley, living in a French Pyrenees town populated by people engaged in magical and spiritual practices 28/11/2024 | Films | Reviews | FinlandInterview: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa“It’s not just my mum's story; it’s also the story of so many other women who have been through the same experiences”The director and co-director, also siblings, describe the shared intentions behind their film, a personal look at their mother’s life and three generations of women in Afghanistan 27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024Interview: Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket“We are constantly projecting futures but also pasts, and we are trying to make sense of the world around us through fiction”The Belgian director speaks about using a blend of documentary and fiction to create a story that reckons with the past, present and Palestinian hopes for the future 27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024Review: I, the SongIn Dechen Roder’s slow yet persistent sophomore feature, one woman's search to clear her name becomes an existential quest to discover the truth behind her doppelgänger’s disappearance 26/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks previous page: 1 2 3 ... 10 11 [12] 13 14 ... 22 23 24 next