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Olivia Popp


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

Review: No Other Land

Review: No Other Land

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor sign a moving and intimate debut documentary on the eviction of Palestinians from ancestral West Bank villages  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: My Favourite Cake

Review: My Favourite Cake

BERLINALE 2024: Directorial duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha craft a straightforward but heartfelt dramedy of love and resistance against patriarchy in old age  

17/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Small Things Like These

Review: Small Things Like These

BERLINALE 2024: Based on Claire Keegan’s book of the same name, the third feature by Belgian director Tim Mielants is a portrait of a small town troubled by indifference  

15/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Journey of Shadows

Review: Journey of Shadows

Multimedia artist and animator Yves Netzhammer brings to life a peculiar yet thought-provoking 3D-animated tale of humanity pared down to its core  

02/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: Formosa Beach

Review: Formosa Beach

Julia De Simone’s first feature inventively interrogates Portugal’s colonial history in Brazil through experimental fiction informed by a documentary background  

01/02/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: Moses

Review: Moses

Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s newest feature contemplates the birth of monotheism through art history and a performance of Sigmund Freud’s final book  

29/01/2024 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: Flotacija

Review: Flotacija

Eluned Zoë Aiano and Alesandra Tatić’s documentary examines the coexistence of the magical and the pragmatic in an eastern Serbian mining community, where the locals are dragon hunters  

05/12/2023 | Films | Reviews | Serbia

GoCritic! Feature: The Corruption of Rationality - Marta Pajek's Retrospective at Animest

GoCritic! Feature: The Corruption of Rationality - Marta Pajek's Retrospective at Animest

The acclaimed Polish animator enjoyed a retrospective at Animest and held a masterclass. Is interpretation always necessary and can it harm the perception of a work of art?  

28/11/2023 | GoCritic! | Animest 2023

GoCritic! Review: The Siren

GoCritic! Review: The Siren

As shown through the eyes of a teenage boy, Sepideh Farsi's animated film shows both the horrors and kindness that wartime brings  

26/10/2023 | GoCritic! | Animest 2023

A Crab in the Pool and Tender Metalheads triumph at Animest

A Crab in the Pool and Tender Metalheads triumph at Animest

Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel’s short and Carlos Perez-Reche and Joan Francesc Tomas Monfort's feature have won in their respective international competitions  

17/10/2023 | GoCritic! | Animest 2023

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