Olivia Popp

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.

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.

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.

ROTTERDAM 2025: Jaime Rosales’ new film riffs on fate, romance and inevitability, musing on a love triangle laced with what-ifs

ROTTERDAM 2025: The storied director talks about her approach to managing the sacred, solitude and silence in her newest feature, a pensive character-driven tale about two women connected in unexpected ways.

San Sebastián International Film Festival - festival dispatch

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

“Consumers in the Global South have a right to the best coffees from their nations, their sister nations, from wherever they want.”

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

ROTTERDAM 2025: “A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

SUNDANCE 2025: The Danish director lays out his community-centric approach to creating his first feature, a queer romance that also engages with Denmark’s social environment pertaining to trans rights

Elina Psykou's debut feature delves into biopolitics and bodily management, reflecting on Foucault's theory of biopower in Europe.

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2024: With his feature fiction debut, Joshua Oppenheimer presents a haunting post-apocalyptic allegorical operetta that sinks its teeth into the true devastations of modernity

MARRAKECH 2024: The current head of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops speaks about the highlights of this year’s industry programme and how it trains up-and-coming talent from the region

BERLINALE 2024: The pen is mightier than the sword, they say — but whether this translates in today’s world is another question. The camera’s might against the firearm is newly investigated in No Other Land, a documentary by a Palestinian–Israeli collective that just made its world premiere in the Panorama section of the 74th Berlinale.