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Olivia Popp


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

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

Review: Hunters on a White Field

Review: Hunters on a White Field

Swedish writer-director Sarah Gyllenstierna’s feature debut boasts a standout lead performance by Ardalan Esmaili but wobbles in its crucifixion of masculinity  

13/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Yasemin Şamdereli, Deka Mohamed Osman  • Director of and collaborator on Samia

Interview: Yasemin Şamdereli, Deka Mohamed Osman • Director of and collaborator on Samia

“How can someone who was at the Olympics, who was so talented, end up in a situation like this?”

The director and collaborator discuss the importance of a Somali and refugee story that’s as uplifting as it is a harsh reminder of reality  

12/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Sonja Prosenc • Director of Family Therapy

Interview: Sonja Prosenc • Director of Family Therapy

“We are afraid that this will push us to confront something that we don't want to be confronted with”

The Slovenian writer-director chats to us about aligning production design with characters, and crafting a story that’s both personal and political  

10/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Review: Family Therapy

Review: Family Therapy

Centring on a wealthy Slovenian family, Sonja Prosenc’s third feature is a brightly burning social satire that asks us to laugh, and then to empathise  

10/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Review: The Dog Thief

Review: The Dog Thief

Chilean filmmaker Vinko Tomičić Salinas makes his solo feature debut with a meditative portrait of a young shoeshiner in the Bolivian capital of La Paz  

07/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

Vinko Tomičić Salinas • Director of The Dog Thief

Interview: Vinko Tomičić Salinas • Director of The Dog Thief

“This city is the only place where I feel like time stands still”

The Chilean writer-director talks about the most important parts of pre-production for his newest feature and why the film’s La Paz setting is so special  

07/06/2024 | Tribeca 2024

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