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Olivia Popp


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

Heretic puts its weight behind Little Trouble Girls at Berlin

Heretic puts its weight behind Little Trouble Girls at Berlin

The Athens-based outfit is selling the eagerly awaited Perspectives title alongside a slate of Balkan titles, including the IFFR competitor Wind, Talk to Me  

10/02 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

Review: Acts of Love

Review: Acts of Love

Jeppe Rønde returns to Rotterdam with a tense interpersonal drama about a woman in a New Age religious community confronted by the secrets held by her outsider brother  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

StudioCanal jumpstarts Sixth Dimension, a new in-house outfit dedicated to genre cinema

StudioCanal jumpstarts Sixth Dimension, a new in-house outfit dedicated to genre cinema

The European genre label will take its first sales title to the European Film Market, a remake of the cult horror classic Silent Night, Deadly Night  

10/02 | Industry | Market | France/UK

Review: Storm Alerts

Review: Storm Alerts

Bergur Bernburg presents a collage-like Icelandic docufiction, a formally fascinating but occasionally overly free-flying examination of defying biomedical diagnoses  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

Interview: Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Assistant

Review: The Assistant

Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal deliver an artsy take on Robert Walser's 1908 novel, using anachronistic elements to keep the viewer reflecting on the protagonist's plight  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

José Filipe Costa  • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Interview: José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political environments  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Bad Painter

Review: Bad Painter

German painter Albert Oehlen makes his first solo feature-length foray into film with a bizarre docufictional mockumentary interspersed with odd bits of body horror  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Back to the Family

Review: Back to the Family

Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas unravels the tensely wound dynamics of a rural family through the return of a young woman for her grandmother’s final days  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: White Roses, Fall!

Review: White Roses, Fall!

Albertina Carri’s film about a lesbian porn director who sets off on a road trip with her actors possesses plenty of spirit, but its aimlessness and odd pacing choices drag it down  

06/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

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