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Olivia Popp


222 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 23/04/2025.

Review: The Quiet Ones

Review: The Quiet Ones

Danish director Frederik Louis Hviid makes his solo feature debut with an action-packed crime-thriller that doesn’t quite live up to its potential  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Review: Bonjour Tristesse

Review: Bonjour Tristesse

With her debut film, Canadian essayist Durga Chew-Bose adapts the 1954 French novel into a languorous contemporary fable, set off by a lingering disquietude  

09/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

Interview: Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

“I’m a big believer in the process of liberation, and I truly believe that nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

VENICE 2024: The Palestinian director breaks down his methods of writing and shooting as well as interrogating concepts like morality and the normalisation of oppression  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Happy Holidays

Review: Happy Holidays

VENICE 2024: Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti makes effective use of an ensemble cast in this portrait of contemporary family life in Israel, replete with its many intricacies  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: No Sleep Till

Review: No Sleep Till

VENICE 2024: It’s hurricane season in the Sunshine State in Alexandra Simpson’s meandering but mesmerising feature debut, which is never short on vibes  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Deepak Rauniyar, Asha Magrati • Director of and lead actress in Pooja, Sir

Interview: Deepak Rauniyar, Asha Magrati • Director of and lead actress in Pooja, Sir

“We felt that it was our responsibility to make a film that everyday media could not cover”

VENICE 2024: The director and the lead actress, who are personal and professional partners, speak about their impetus to collaborate on a film inspired by their relationship  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Pooja, Sir

Review: Pooja, Sir

VENICE 2024: Deepak Rauniyar’s third feature is a thriller of byzantine complexity headlined by a queer police detective, set amidst Nepal’s 2015 ethnic-minority movements  

29/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: bluish

Review: bluish

Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky sign a meditative, experimental sophomore film that is more of a trance-like cinematic concept than anything else  

01/07/2024 | FIDMarseille 2024

Review: The Boy and the Suit of Lights

Review: The Boy and the Suit of Lights

Inma de Reyes offers up a quietly compelling documentary of a young bullfighter-in-training over the course of five years  

17/06/2024 | Sheffield Doc Fest 2024

Review: Hidden Era

Review: Hidden Era

Berlin-based Colombian filmmaker Carlos Vargas’s portrait of a Rastafarian Mozambican artist shows promise in subject but ultimately feels incomplete  

14/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

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