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Olivia Popp


246 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 29/07/2025.

Review: Teenage Life Interrupted

Review: Teenage Life Interrupted

Tromsø-based director Åse Svenheim Drivenes signs a compassionate and relevant documentary on the limits of biomedicine through the lens of unexplained adolescent chronic pain  

20/01 | Tromsø 2025

Review: Everything Must Go

Review: Everything Must Go

Arild Østin Ommundsen’s newest film follows three siblings navigating unresolved childhood conflicts and emergent personal crises as they clean out their late father's home  

20/01 | Tromsø 2025

Kustendorf gears up for its 18th edition

Kustendorf gears up for its 18th edition

The Serbian gathering, unspooling from 22-25 January, welcomes new talents and celebrates the anniversaries of festival founder Emir Kusturica’s two Palme d’Or winners  

20/01 | Kustendorf 2025

Review: Ski - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time

Review: Ski - The Greatest Ski Tour of All Time

Norwegian skier and filmmaker Nikolai Schirmer strives to make the world’s next big sports documentary, putting together an impressive set of component parts with somewhat mixed results  

16/01 | Tromsø 2025

Tromsø announces the full programme line-up for its 35th edition

Tromsø announces the full programme line-up for its 35th edition

Arild Østin Ommundsen's Everything Must Go will open the gathering, which includes a sidebar for new musical movies, its signature Films from the North showcase and a focus on Iran  

13/12/2024 | Tromsø 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

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