Where Else to Look but Around: The Making of North Atlantic Cinema at Stockfish 2026 Olivia Popp May 2026 Festival Reports It was Reykjavík’s heaviest snowstorm since last October that initially delayed my arrival to the world’s northernmost capital for the 12th edition of Stockfish Film & Industry Festival, the country’s artho...
Sarajevo, As Told By Other People: The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival Olivia Popp November 2025 Festival Reports Every so often it becomes necessary to rewatch this iconic bit from Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, "Where is Balkan?", a lighthearted reminder of just how relative our (royal “we”) perception of provincial...
Autoethnographic Encounters: The 56th Visions du Réel Olivia Popp July 2025 Festival Reports Unspooling every spring in Nyon, Visions du Réel is known as the largest documentary film festival in Switzerland, as well as one of Europe’s most renowned. But on the shores of the ever-picturesque Lake Geneva...
57th Sitges Film Festival: Audience First Olivia Popp January 2025 Festival Reports As a self-proclaimed “longtime genre film fan”, it felt fortuitous to end up at Spain’s 57th Sitges Film Festival (or in its extended form, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, running...
