Olivia Popp

LOCARNO 2025: Speaking with Variety, the Bucharest-based filmmaker describes how he disrupts the “fragile frontier” between binaries – life and death, human and animal, real and unreal – that bleed through the film’s experientiality.

FEATURE: In recent years, some cinema has taken a bold turn away from anthropomorphism in its depiction of nonhuman animals, refusing to “make tame.”

Grand Theft Hamlet might be the highest profile film made inside Rockstar's flagship franchise, but it's certainly not the first – join us on a cruise through San Andreas Cinema.

San Sebastián International Film Festival - festival dispatch

Report of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival: a city of history, brand, and juxtapositions.

John Nein speaks about the importance of queer stories to American independent cinema and Sundance's approach to supporting filmmakers.

ZURICH 2025: Shih-Ching Tsou's engrossing and boisterous solo debut is an enchanting and colourful ride through today’s Taipei, as seen through the eyes of multiple generations.

LOCARNO 2025: In a VR restoration of a “Swissorama” project, we peer into the past across a technological divide.

VENICE 2025: The director of The Blue Caftan speaks about bringing to the screen the unique beauty and complexity of her home city of Tangier.

Two Swiss documentaries, The Boy from the River Drina and No One Will Hurt You, delve into a violent history, rejecting the silence over the Bosnian War maintained by those who fled the former Yugoslavia and sought refuge in Switzerland.

TORONTO/SAN SEBASTIÁN 2025: Saoirse Ronan is a teacher in crisis in Jonatan Etzler’s sophomore feature, a primary school-set satire in which perhaps there’s no such thing as a good person.

TORONTO/SAN SEBASTIÁN: The director and actor share their understanding of the movie’s intricate themes of body politics, sexuality and finding connections in seemingly different lived experiences.

Vytautas Katkus makes his feature debut with a poignant beach-town tale carved through the connections between individuals, spaces and encounters.

LEUVEN SHORTS 2024: Throughout multiple films, Basil Da Cunha has introduced a postcolonial orientation to filmmaking, in which the community he depicts is involved in telling its own stories and reclaiming its narratives.

TROMSØ 2025: The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception.