Olivia Popp

30th anniversary retrospective of Shu Lea Cheang's cult classic "Fresh Kill".

BERLINALE 2024: Nele Wohlatz’s transnational feature aligns form and content to create a meandering exploration of language and heritage within the Chinese diaspora of Brazil’s Recife

BERLINALE 2024: Based on Claire Keegan’s book of the same name, the third feature by Belgian director Tim Mielants is a portrait of a small town troubled by indifference

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.

IFFR 2024 diary - A look at the offerings of this year’s IFFR, including “DUCK,” “Piano 17,” “78 Days,” and more.

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

Review of Christian Avilés' "Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays" for Talking Shorts magazine

Coverage of Taiwanese cinema at the 25th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy

Julia De Simone’s first feature inventively interrogates Portugal’s colonial history in Brazil through experimental fiction informed by a documentary background

The acclaimed Polish animator enjoyed a retrospective at Animest and held a masterclass. Is interpretation always necessary and can it harm the perception of a work of art?

Olivia Popp reviews Serbian documentary "Flotacija", which examines the coexistence of the magical and the pragmatic in an eastern Serbian mining community, where the locals are dragon hunters.

The lighthearted slice-of-life storytelling in ‘Girl Picture’ gives viewers a healthy sampling of what Haapasalo has to offer and, ultimately, a fulfilling and effervescent exploration of teenage sexuality.

A tale of widowed mother–queer daughter acceptance rings just a little bit sweeter when it stays true to the reticence of its protagonist, an overly caring Korean woman with a headstrong daughter.