Letiția Popa
 

Letitia Popa is a Romanian filmmaker, visual artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

She holds a Master’s Degree at the Netherlands Film Academy through the Master of Film – Artistic Research In and Through Cinema. She holds a bachelor's degree in Film and TV Directing from the National University of Theatre and Film Bucharest, complemented by a master's degree in documentary filmmaking. In 2021 she has completed a one year Erasmus exchange in Belgium, at Kask and Conservatory School of Arts Gent.

Her films have received recognition at esteemed European film festivals, including Astra Film Festival, FipaDoc IFF, Jihlava IFF, Visions du Reel, GoShort Nijmegen and she has been honoured with an award rom Périphérie Docs. In 2018 she was awarded the best short film award at DocSchool Competition by Cristi Puiu. In 2019 she was nominated for Prix Europa - Rising Stars Student Award in Potsdam, Germany.
 

Between 2019-2020, she took part in a one-year workshop program, mentored by the artists Ivana Mladenovic and Adina Pintilie.

Moreover, in 2023 she has organised, developed and facilitated an artistic residency called ECHO III in Bucharest Romania, that was focused on arranged marriages in the Balkan region, where she guided 6 international artists to develop 4 video-poems focused on the topic.

Rooted in her own subjectivity, Letitia Popa’s work navigates themes of womanhood, otherness, memory and identity, exploring the process of becoming through the intimacy of everyday life. Blending fiction and documentary, her films explore the liminal space between self and other, with a strong attention to relationships, power dynamics, and questions of belonging. At the heart of her storytelling lies the idea of home: as a physical space, as memory, as sensation, as loss; a recurring thread that grounds both her past and future films in a personal yet universal terrain.

Furthermore, Letitia contextualises her work within the 34-year transition period of Romania. Her films delve into the everyday realities and socio-economic challenges faced by individuals during this transformative era. Exploring systemic issues ranging from corrections institutions to healthcare and migration, she portrays the individual as an integral component of the larger societal framework. Letitia employs observational cinema, alongside performative and experimental approaches.