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Olivia Popp

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

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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

Review: Writing Hawa

Review: Writing Hawa

Najiba and Rasul Noori leverage their own subjectivity to create a tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Light Memories

Review: Light Memories

Misha Vallejo Prut unpacks intergenerational trauma as perpetuated by silence and absence, in the process making one of the most gorgeously lensed personal documentaries of the year  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

Interview: Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

“People are often powerless over their issues, but there are ways in which we can make excuses for it as well”

The Irish artist and filmmaker talks about turning a critical lens on her mother and herself in her first feature-length documentary  

21/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Carmen Trocker • Director of Personale

Interview: Carmen Trocker • Director of Personale

“This is the best way to talk about the expectations that tourists have and the workers who make it possible”

The first-time director talks about her simple yet effective visual and sonic approaches to her documentary, illuminating different forms of unseen labour  

20/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Personale

Review: Personale

In her debut documentary, Carmen Trocker deconstructs a luxury Italian hotel, where staff negotiate demanding expectations while forging a supportive community  

19/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

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