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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 gocritic@cineuropa.org

See also: About GoCritic!, 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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237 articles available in total starting from 04/05/2018. Last article published on 25/09/2025.

GoCritic! Review: Animums

GoCritic! Review: Animums

The new animated anthology from four Czech women animators and Studio Kouzelna is a refreshing and innovative take on the tension between creative work and raising children  

25/09 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

GoCritic! launches call for participants for its new season of workshops

GoCritic! launches call for participants for its new season of workshops

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

18/09 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2025/Anifilm Liberec 2026/Animafest Zagreb 2026/Fest Anča 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Martinus Klemet  • Director, short film Yummy

GoCritic! Interview: Martinus Klemet • Director, short film Yummy

"When I converted the text into visuals, it became more humorous and softer"

Estonian animator Martinus Klemet discusses metaphors and visual identity as well as collaborating with the Oscars-shortlisted production company AAA Creative  

18/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Interview: Martin Vandas  • Producer and founder, MAUR Film

GoCritic! Interview: Martin Vandas • Producer and founder, MAUR Film

"It's necessary to keep the audience as a part of our artistic responsibility"

The Czech producer discusses the producer-animator chemistry and the current state of funding in European animation, and previews upcoming projects  

18/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Video Essay: Choosing Animation Technique

GoCritic! Video Essay: Choosing Animation Technique

The techniques available to filmmakers already offer a vast palette of options — but how do animation directors choose the right one for each project?  

18/07 | GoCritic! | Animest 2024

GoCritic! Interview: Mato Uljarević  • Director, short film Urosh

GoCritic! Interview: Mato Uljarević • Director, short film Urosh

"I was using this biographical story to talk about the universal theme of the power of art"

Mato Uljarević speaks about the challenges and rewards of creating his first short film, presented with the Zlatko Grgić Award at Animafest Zagreb  

18/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Feature: Through the curves of bodies and the sketches of imagination at the 18th Fest Anča

GoCritic! Feature: Through the curves of bodies and the sketches of imagination at the 18th Fest Anča

Solidarity and warmth shone through the 2025 edition of Slovakia’s Fest Anča International Animation Film Festival  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: An audiovisual journey through the Music Video Competition at Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: An audiovisual journey through the Music Video Competition at Fest Anča 2025

The 13 visually and sonically stunning music videos of the competition’s first block hurtle through real and imagined places  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Mama Micra

GoCritic! Review: Mama Micra

Rebecca Blöcher’s short film animates a mother-daughter bond too fragile to hold  

16/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Off-Time

GoCritic! Review: Off-Time

Screening at Fest Anča, Nata Metlukh’s short summons us to kill time before it kills us first, while exploring why we feel the need to talk about productivity  

16/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

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