Letiția Popa
interviews, awards, collaborations and other links:
Video On Demand
• January 2025: Fragmented Skies (2025) is streaming on NPO Doc: https://www.npodoc.nl/documentaires/2026/01/fragmented-skies.html
• March 2024- 2026: Marie (2018) is streaming on Dafilms: https://dafilms.com/film/17088-marie
Mentorship
• 2023-2025 Assisted and mentored by Master's core team: Nduka Mntambo, Diana Tuscedo, Eliane Bots, Katarina Zdjelar
• 2023: Her Story, Her Future - mentored by Kawthar Younis : https://herstoryherfuture.com/letitia-popa/
• 2019-2020: Make a film with a refugee: workshop organised by UNATC, OWR, UNHCR: mentored by Adina Pintilie and Ivana Mladenovich
Collaborations and Residencies:
• 2025: Co-publishing for Fragments for Subduing the Silence, a publication edited by Rachael Rakes, published by Master of Film (NFA)
• 2024: Research Field Trip in Uzbekistan, part of filmmaking crew for the short film "Do you know I'm with you", by Daria Andijan: https://daryaandijan.com/do-you-know-that-i’m-with-you
• 2023: Took part in the ReVedere Residency, that took place in Naslavcea, Republic of Moldova: https://www.art.md/post.php?id=30
• 2023: Took part in the international film residency La Guarimba and developed one short film, as well as worked as director of photography and actor in other short international productions: took part as self in the short documentary: Corpo d'aqua, directed by Audrey Lane (USA): women from Romania, Ireland, Venezuela, Peru, Italy, France, and Montreal, who share candid reflections and international perspectives on their relationships with their bodies.
Cinematographer in Doble retrato: Amantea & Caracas, by Samuel de Sousa.
• 2023: Facilitating and Organising a Film Residency in Bucharest, Romania: https://www.platformarhea.ro/echo-iii-for-memory-s-sake-en
Awards:
• 2025: Amarte Fonds: Project Grant for the development of A star falls under an acid sky: https://www.amarte.nl/nl/agenda/2025/a-star-falls-under-an-acid-sky
• 2023: Short Film Breaks Award: Silver Elephant Award for Songs from the Backyard: https://www.facebook.com/ShortFilmBreaks/posts/851642220305033
• 2023: Filmul de Piatră: Special Mention for the film Songs from the Backyard: https://www.filmuldepiatra.com/recap/winners.html
• 2020: Special Mention offered by Périphérie Cinéma Documentaire
• 2018: Astra Film Festival Sibiu, Romania: Best Directing in Docschool Competition
Screenings and exhibitions:
• 2025: Screening of Towards White: October, 2025: Uluslararası Kısa Film, Video ve Fotoğraf Sempozyumu, Istanbul: October https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwcXMODDG_/
• 2025: Screening of Towards White: November 2025, The Hague, Selected for Eastern Neighbours Film Festival: https://easternneighboursfilmfestival.nl/new-talents-competition25/
• 2025: Screening Fragmented Skies: Balkans Beyond Borders: November, 2025: https://www.balkansbeyondborders.eu/film/fragmented-skies/
• 2025: Screening Fragmented Skies during Cultural Tailbone collective exhibition and screening: https://www.rri.ro/actualitate/jurnal-romanesc/jurnal-romanesc-05-09-2025-id924468.html
• 2025: Installation at the Film Academy: Artistic Research Week 2025 | Master of Film | Part of the Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival
• 2025: Special Screening of Songs from the backyard: “Troubling the Masculine" during Eastern Neighbours Retrospective, 28 of November, 18:30 Kriterion, Amsterdam: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRepAqniGHM/?img_index=1
• 2025: WIP Screening of A star falls under an acid sky: Artistic Research Week 2025 | Master of Film | Part of the Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival, IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, June, 2025: https://www.idfa.nl/en/cinema/b9c3fdaa-8dd9-4da0-9ec3-7d798b107837/a-star-falls-under-an-acid-sky-(o-stea-cade-sub-un-cer-de-foc)/
• 2025: World Premiere of Towards White: Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen: April 2025: https://www.goshort.nl/en/festival-program/block/film?movieId=45817&idnr=2025-1539
• 2024: Special Screening of Towards White and Maybe there is no distance, supported by CEC ArtsLink - 24 of august, 19.00 PM, Second Shift Studio Sace, Minnesota, USA. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBbnj_sqYpT/?igsh=a3VzbXVyZm93cXNo
• 2023: Screening of Songs from the backyard in Astra Film Festival, docschool category: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_4KCrELOew
• 2022: Screening of Songs from the backyard in Caligari, Italy - Babel Film Festival: https://www.babelfilmfestival.com/en/film/c-ntece-din-curtea-din-spate/
• 2022: Screening and Attendance of Songs from the backyard in The Hague, The Netherlands - Eastern Neighbours Film Festival: https://easternneighboursfilmfestival.nl/songs-from-the-backyard/ with the support of ICR
• 2022: Screening of Songs from the backyard in Saratov Sufferings International Film Festival
• 2022: Seară de scurtmetraje realizate de femei la Brașov și Sibiu. Zilele Sofia Nădejde 2022
• 2022: ZILELE SOFIA NĂDEJDE 2022 - SCURTMETRAJE REALIZATE DE FEMEI Proiecție la București – 28 august ora 19.00 MNLR
• 2021: sacred strands online exhibition:
Sacred Strands is an exhibit of art exploring connections. Sacred threads is an inquiry into connectivity. A blend of fragility and strength with the utmost honesty; an invitation into what interconnectivity means and what shared strings tie us together.
Press:
• 2025: Interview for Radio Plac, Serbia: https://www.mixcloud.com/radioplac/stol-collective-part-2/
• 2023: Astra Film Festival Highlights https://www.moderntimes.review/astra-film-festival-unveils-romanian-competition-titles-for-30th-anniversary/
• 2022: Best Romanian films of 2022
featured in: https://www.filmsinframe.com/en/features/best-romanian-films-2022/
• 2022: BIEFF – Competiția națională – un trial and error organic
http://www.acoperisuldesticla.ro/film/bieff-competitia-nationala-un-trial-and-error-organic-4639/
• 2022: CONVORBIRI VIRTUALE de la BIEFF - Maybe there is no distance:
https://filmmenu.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/convorbiri-virtuale-de-la-bieff/
• 2021: a short inquiry on documentary:
• 2020:
3rd Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium
“Looking at and Looking into” Q&A:
http://balkan-can-kino.com/bckfs-qa-with-letitia-popa-marie/?fbclid=IwAR1ckKO-DXLrRGZacBmOp_8azBsFJQG2SLEYlkjRldlLLyaga_QFdixRpq0
• 2019:
interview by Tettyo Saito:
• 2018:
featured in: https://www.scena9.ro/article/documentare-astra-2018-culese-din-balkani-docuart