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Olivia Popp


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

Pluto Film sells Night Passengers in Cannes

Pluto Film sells Night Passengers in Cannes

The German company takes the sophomore feature of Portuguese director Pedro Cabeleira, a crime drama that promises to thrill, to the Marché du Film  

12/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

m-appeal selling Lucio Castro’s Cannes ACID title Drunken Noodles

m-appeal selling Lucio Castro’s Cannes ACID title Drunken Noodles

The Berlin-based sales agent looks to continue its success at the Marché du Film with this queer movie as well as several lauded works from the Berlinale  

12/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Paula Tomás Marques • Director of Two Times João Liberada

Interview: Paula Tomás Marques • Director of Two Times João Liberada

"We had a synopsis of a violent life, and we didn't want to portray that"

The Portuguese director discusses her collaborative process, the act of transcending temporality and creating the film’s tangible materiality on celluloid  

08/05 | IndieLisboa 2025

Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf is now in post-production

Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf is now in post-production

The director’s third film is a road movie set across Georgia, centring on the search for a missing photographer who was last seen snapping football stadiums around the country  

08/05 | Germany/Georgia

Adnan Hrustemović’s Evil Eye enters post-production

Adnan Hrustemović’s Evil Eye enters post-production

The director makes his feature debut with the story of a retired surgeon whose life changes after an encounter with a girl who reports being plagued by a curse  

23/04 | Production | Funding | Bosnia and Herzegovina

Production begins on Randa Chahoud’s Identitti

Production begins on Randa Chahoud’s Identitti

Based on a bestseller by Mithu Sanyal, the story centres on a doctoral student and blogger who discovers a shocking secret about her Postcolonial Theory professor  

22/04 | Production | Funding | Germany

Aisha Can’t Fly Away becomes the first Egyptian film in Un Certain Regard since 2016

Aisha Can’t Fly Away becomes the first Egyptian film in Un Certain Regard since 2016

Morad Mostafa’s debut feature follows the eponymous 26-year-old immigrant and caregiver navigating violent tensions in the Cairo neighbourhood of Ain Shams  

18/04 | Production | Funding | Egypt/France/Germany/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/Sudan

Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir jumps into the race for the Palme d’Or

Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir jumps into the race for the Palme d’Or

The Japanese writer-director returns to the Croisette with her sophomore feature, an emotional coming-of-age tale set in late-1980s Tokyo  

18/04 | Production | Funding | Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia

European productions set to make a great first impression at Tribeca

European productions set to make a great first impression at Tribeca

The US festival’s competition sections boast a diverse set of European works, with a particularly strong documentary turnout from the UK and Denmark  

18/04 | Tribeca 2025

Christian Petzold's 11th feature, Mirrors No. 3, becomes his first to grace the Croisette

Christian Petzold's 11th feature, Mirrors No. 3, becomes his first to grace the Croisette

The Silver Bear-winning German filmmaker brings the work to this year’s Directors' Fortnight in his fourth collaboration with Paula Beer  

18/04 | Production | Funding | Germany

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