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

Writer-director Nastasya Popov finely threads a needle in her debut feature “Idiotka,” dipping into the chaotic life of Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), an aspiring fashion designer with a barely ...

SXSW: Anna Baryshnikov is a second-gen immigrant hoping to triumph on a fashion design reality show, in director Nastasya Popov’s amiable-enough satire. One of the predominant worries of our age ...

Writer-director Nastasya Popov finely threads a needle in her debut feature “Idiotka,” dipping into the chaotic life of Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), an aspiring fashion designer with a barely ...

“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 ballet at 5:10.