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Olivia Popp
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Meet Olivia Popp
Olivia Popp is a film writer, critic, and programmer based between Berlin and Brussels. Beyond her writing for Zippy Frames, her work can be found in Cineuropa, MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, Senses of Cinema, Modern Times Review, and more. Olivia programmes for One World Slovakia International Documentary Film Festival and supports International Film Festival Rotterdam’s editorial team. She is an alumna of several film criticism workshops, including Locarno Critics Academy (2025) and Berlinale Talents (2024), and also serves as the publication coordinator for Cineuropa’s GoCritic! emerging film writers programme. Olivia is a member of the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).
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- ‘Julián’ by Louise Bagnall: Annecy Review
- An Unsettling Realism: Interview with the'Blaise' Director, Dimitri Planchon (Cannes 2026)
- ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han: Film Review
- The Past is the Present is the Future: Notes on Anibar Animation Festival 2025
- 'We Have to Do In Animation What Europe Is Strong In’: An interview with Draško Ivezić of Adriatic Animation
- “They Wanted the World to Know What They Were Going Through”: Interview With Palestinians Haneen Koraz and Nour A-Jawad (Stop-Motion Animation Workshops)
- “We Learn Too Slowly About the Environment”: Michael Dudok de Wit on Animation and Ecological Awareness at Anima Brussels 2025
- History, Inspired: Belgian National Short Film Competition at Anima Brussels 2025
- ‘We Searched for a Kind of Harmony’: Interview with Leon Vidmar and Jean-Claude Rozec (‘Tales from the Magic Garden’)
- ‘Cutouts are asking to be animated’: Interview with Aria Covamonas, director of ‘The Great History of Western Philosophy’
- 'Sierra' (2022) by Sander Joon: Film Review
- Palestinian Animation at StopTrik: An Interview with Ahmad Saleh
- ‘Rock Bottom’ (2024): San Sebastián Film Review
- Humanity, Meet Humility: Notes on the 14th StopTrik International Film Festival
- “For Me as a Director, It Felt Like Sculpting”: Interview with Tomás Pichardo Espaillat on ‘Olivia & the Clouds’ : Watch the film online (till 28/12)
- 'The Glassworker' (2023): Annecy Film Review
- ‘Living Large' (2024): Annecy Film Review
- 'Into the Wonderwoods' (2024) by Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord: Film Review
- A Gender Play: 'Flower Show' Animation Short - IFFR Interview with Elli Vuorinen
- The Missing by Carl Joseph E. Papa (IFFR Review)
