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Olivia Popp


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

Review: Daniela Forever

Review: Daniela Forever

A DJ in Madrid takes an experimental drug to bring back his late girlfriend through lucid dreaming in Nacho Vigalondo’s unexpected hallucinogenic fantasy  

10/10/2024 | Sitges 2024

European Work in Progress Cologne and the International Film Distribution Summit poised to kick off

European Work in Progress Cologne and the International Film Distribution Summit poised to kick off

Home to a thriving segment of the European audiovisual sector, Cologne will once again host the two events in mid-October, championing industry exchange, works in progress and distribution  

03/10/2024 | European Work in Progress Cologne 2024

Review: Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us

Review: Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us

Sofía Paloma Gómez and Camilo Becerra make their feature debut with this narratively creeping, cryptic antidote to hyper-sensationalised true crime media inspired by real events  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Horizontes Latinos

Review: The End

Review: The End

With his feature fiction debut, Joshua Oppenheimer presents a haunting post-apocalyptic allegorical operetta that sinks its teeth into the true devastations of modernity  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Behrem • Director of and actor in Gülizar

Interview: Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Behrem • Director of and actor in Gülizar

"We haven't seen that much Turkish male representation in cinema that gives us hope"

The Turkish director and the actor share the thought process behind the filmmaker's debut feature, with an emphasis on the depiction of Turkish men in cinema  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: When Fall Is Coming

Review: When Fall Is Coming

In François Ozon’s newest film, discontent brews in a cosy autumnal Burgundy village laden with intergenerational guilt, resentment and no way out but onwards  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Warsaw Film Festival entry Waterdrop

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Warsaw Film Festival entry Waterdrop

The third feature by Albanian director Robert Budina interrogates the struggles of a woman balancing the deep complexities and contradictions of career, family and morality  

20/09/2024 | Warsaw 2024

Review: Linda

Review: Linda

Mariana Wainstein's feature debut is a thematically tame but intimately lensed take on the story of a seductive guest entering the household of a wealthy family  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Akinmuyiwa Bisola, Okechukwu Samuel, Mathew Cerf, James Tayler • Directors of The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos

Interview: Akinmuyiwa Bisola, Okechukwu Samuel, Mathew Cerf, James Tayler • Directors of The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos

“An individual has to put their selfish interests aside to focus on the beautiful goal that we aim to achieve”

Four members of the Agbajowo Collective speak about their debut fiction feature and how their filmmaking intersects with their grassroots social advocacy efforts  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: Front Row

Review: Front Row

Prolific Algerian filmmaker Merzak Allouache's 19th feature is a social issues comedy full of awkward moments and centred around two rival families at the beach  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

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