Premiering at SXSW, writer-director Nastasya Popov's feature debut stars Anna Baryshnikov as an aspiring fashion designer who gets cast on a show featuring underprivileged contestants.

Nastasya Popov’s feature debut stars Anna Baryshnikov as a struggling fashion designer and second-generation immigrant torn ...

Writer-director Nastasya Popov finely threads a needle in her debut feature “ Idiotka ,” dipping into the chaotic life of ...

Ahead of its SXSW premiere, the writer, director and cast of 'Idiotka' stopped by the Deadline Studio to discuss the film.

Writer-director Nastasya Popov’s feature debut is a hilariously heartfelt reminder that immigrants make America (and cinema) great. In the earnest comedy-drama Idiotka, Anna Baryshnikov plays ...

Doing it for the girls and the gays,” said Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), before taping an audition tape in the opening scene ...

Yet dampening the impact of “Idiotka” is how its emphasis on the family’s camaraderie and integrity is at cross-purposes with its satirical targets, both thematically and in a structural sense.

Julia Fox joined her fellow cast members and the creative team of “Idiotka” for the film’s SXSW Film Festival debut on Wednesday in Austin. The “Uncut Gems” star appears in the film alongside Camila ...

Nastasya Popov, who wrote and directed Idiotka, impressed Fox with her persistence. Popov showed up to a book signing for Fox’s memoir, Down the Drain, in 2023, and explained that she had written the ...

“I would describe my aesthetic as Old World trash and treasure,” says Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), a few minutes into Idiotka. “She’s milking a cow at five, but she needs to be at the ...