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Olivia Popp


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

Aisha Can’t Fly Away and Princesse Téné scoop the top prizes at this year’s Atlas Workshops

Aisha Can’t Fly Away and Princesse Téné scoop the top prizes at this year’s Atlas Workshops

Other 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/Awards

Review: Silent Storms

Review: Silent Storms

In 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 2024

Review: The Thousand and One Days of Hajj Edmond

Review: The Thousand and One Days of Hajj Edmond

Simone Bitton weaves together an elegiac love letter to lesser-known Moroccan Jewish writer and intellectual Edmond Amran El Maleh  

03/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

The inaugural African-European Distribution Academy draws to a close

The inaugural African-European Distribution Academy draws to a close

The 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/Africa

The fourth Red Sea International Film Festival finalises its full programme line-up

The fourth Red Sea International Film Festival finalises its full programme line-up

Running 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 2024

Review: The Southern Chronicles

Review: The Southern Chronicles

Ignas 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 Competition

Review: Shadowland

Review: Shadowland

Otso 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 | Finland

Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

Interview: 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 2024

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

Interview: 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 2024

Review: I, the Song

Review: I, the Song

In 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

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