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GoCritic! Articles

GoCritic! Articles

Welcome to the new page on Cineuropa, dedicated to emerging film journalists and critics through the training programme GoCritic!

In the right column you will find the information on the project, the list of tutors and partner festivals and organisations, and profiles of four participants selected for the KVIFF workshop.

The stories produced at the workshop will be published on Cineuropa's main page, and below is the list of all articles we ran so far.

For all queries, please contact [email protected]

See also: About GoCritic!, GoCritic! Fest Anča 2026, GoCritic! Animafest Zagreb 2026, GoCritic! Anifilm 2026, GoCritic! Animateka 2025, GoCritic! Animest 2025, GoCritic! Fest Anča 2025, GoCritic! Animafest 2025, GoCritic! Anifilm 2025, GoCritic! Animateka 2024, GoCritic! Animest 2024, GoCritic! Fest Anča 2024, GoCritic! Animafest 2024, GoCritic! Anifilm 2024, GoCritic! Animateka 2023, GoCritic! Animest 2023, GoCritic! Fest Anča 2023, GoCritic! Animafest Zagreb 2023, GoCritic! Animest 2022, GoCritic! KVIFF 2019, GoCritic! Animafest Zagreb 2019, GoCritic! Trieste 2019, GoCritic! KVIFF 2018, GoCritic! Tutors, GoCritic! Team, GoCritic! Partners.

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290 articles available in total starting from 04/05/2018. Last article published on 25/09/2026.

GoCritic! launches call for participants in new season of writing and video journalism workshops

GoCritic! launches call for participants in new season of writing and video journalism workshops

Ten participants will be selected for workshops in film journalism and criticism, including a video component, at four member festivals of the Animation Festival Network  

25/09 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2026/Anifilm Liberec 2027/Animafest Zagreb 2027/Fest Anča 2027

GoCritic! Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

GoCritic! Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

Momoko Seto's film blends time-lapse photography and 3D animation to follow four dandelions on an eye-catching cinematic journey through ecological collapse  

05/08 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Matas Pakutinskas  • Director of Little October

GoCritic! Interview: Matas Pakutinskas • Director of Little October

“I don’t feel it’s right for young people to put themselves on the line for other people’s goals”

The Lithuanian animator and illustrator shares the real-life inspirations and his use of strong colour-blocking in his short film  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Tommaso Zerbi  • Director of Time Flies

GoCritic! Interview: Tommaso Zerbi • Director of Time Flies

“It’s a statement about the society that pushes us to be productive and manifesto about being useless”

The Italian animator explores the absurdity behind his award-winning film as an invitation to the audience to reclaim their own time  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Katrina Larner  • Director of Play Fight!

GoCritic! Interview: Katrina Larner • Director of Play Fight!

“Each girl discovers something about herself and the dynamics of social life”

The US multimedia animator discusses her animation techniques and more in this film set at a girls' slumber party  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Šimon Mészáros  • Director of Quantum Jump

GoCritic! Interview: Šimon Mészáros • Director of Quantum Jump

“It’s a part of the story of what is real and what is not”

The Slovak director and animator shares his artistic ideas behind the film and its dialogue with artificially generated imagery  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Review: So He Grabbed the Knife

GoCritic! Review: So He Grabbed the Knife

The Japanese animated short by Sam Kuwa explores the devastating loss of innocence entirely through the anxious perspective of a young boy  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

GoCritic! Review: Paper Trail

GoCritic! Review: Paper Trail

The short animation by Don Hertzfeldt explores the bittersweet tragedy of growing up entirely through scraps of paper  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

GoCritic! Review: Beetles

GoCritic! Review: Beetles

Animator Piotr Chmielewski relays an important message in his new short, produced with the NGO Polish Humanitarian Action  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

Jack Wedge, William Freudenheim • Directors of Acid City

Interview: Jack Wedge, William Freudenheim • Directors of Acid City

"That perspective really came from a desire to focus on how this place works and what the lives of the people who live here actually feel like"

The New York-based filmmakers explore new ways to render the feeling of home in times of ecological collapse  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

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