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Olivia Popp


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

Review: Mi bestia

Review: Mi bestia

CANNES 2024: The devil is in the details in Camila Beltrán’s debut feature, following a teenage girl’s transformation in 1990s Bogotá, as the city readies itself for the arrival of Satan  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | ACID

Review: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

Review: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

CANNES 2024: Hernán Rosselli presents a hypnotic and technically inventive tale of memory, family secrets, and what lies between the lines in contemporary Buenos Aires  

16/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

The Far East Film Festival’s Focus Asia industry programme reaffirms its commitment to European-Asian collaboration

The Far East Film Festival’s Focus Asia industry programme reaffirms its commitment to European-Asian collaboration

The Italian festival’s platform for cross-continental industry cooperation included two new partnerships and an unprecedented number of market submissions  

03/05/2024 | Industry | Market | Italy/Europe/Asia

Lab Femmes de Cinéma releases a new report on women directors in the European audiovisual industry

Lab Femmes de Cinéma releases a new report on women directors in the European audiovisual industry

The study reveals an improved pan-European interest in combatting sexual violence and unconscious biases, but a snail’s-pace move towards gender parity  

08/04/2024 | Industry | Market | Europe

Review: When I Close My Eyes

Review: When I Close My Eyes

In this hybrid live action-animated documentary, Pieter van Huystee tells the stories of women interned in Japanese camps in the Dutch East Indies during World War II  

02/04/2024 | Movies that Matter 2024

Review: Nice Ladies

Review: Nice Ladies

Through the perspective of a cheerleading team made up of penta- and septuagenarians, Mariia Ponomarova trains a fresh lens on life and survival during the Russian invasion of Ukraine  

27/03/2024 | Movies that Matter 2024

Review: I Am the River, the River Is Me

Review: I Am the River, the River Is Me

Petr Lom’s newest documentary examines the indigenous importance of New Zealand’s Whanganui River, the first river worldwide to be granted legal personhood  

26/03/2024 | Movies That Matter 2024

Review: Grand Theft Hamlet

Review: Grand Theft Hamlet

In their SXSW-winning film, Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane retell their unexpected staging of a Shakespearean classic within the notoriously violent video game Grand Theft Auto Online  

21/03/2024 | SXSW 2024

Review: My Sextortion Diary

Review: My Sextortion Diary

Patricia Franquesa’s sophomore feature looks inward at the filmmaker’s own story as a victim of sexual extortion and her quest to reclaim agency of her narrative  

18/03/2024 | SXSW 2024

Review: The Black Sea

Review: The Black Sea

Crystal Moselle and Derrick B Harden craft a touching and optimistic fish-out-of-water tale of finding community in unexpected places  

14/03/2024 | SXSW 2024

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