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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! Animest 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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239 articles available in total starting from 04/05/2018. Last article published on 29/10/2025.

GoCritic! Industry: Saudi-European film collaborations

GoCritic! Industry: Saudi-European film collaborations

Saudi Arabia has recently started getting into financing European animated shorts, two of which were shown at this year's Animateka  

20/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

GoCritic! Industry: Masterclass on White Plastic Sky by Juraj Krasnohorský

GoCritic! Industry: Masterclass on White Plastic Sky by Juraj Krasnohorský

The producer has shared insight on the production of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi animated feature, a co-production between Hungary and Slovakia, two countries that seldom release such films  

20/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

GoCritic! Industry: Rise & Shine awards Cosmonauts and Period Drama at Animateka

GoCritic! Industry: Rise & Shine awards Cosmonauts and Period Drama at Animateka

This year’s Rise & Shine Pitching Lab at the Animateka International Animated Film Festival in Ljubljana showcased 11 new promising projects  

18/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

GoCritic! Feature: Borders as spaces where humanity is tested – Immigration in Animateka's 2023 line-up

GoCritic! Feature: Borders as spaces where humanity is tested – Immigration in Animateka's 2023 line-up

In the rich and diverse programme of Ljubljana’s Animateka International Animated Film Festival, three films stood out for transcending questions of immigration, borders and humanity  

13/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

Marta Magnuska’s Misaligned triumphs at Animateka

Marta Magnuska’s Misaligned triumphs at Animateka

The 20th edition of the Ljubljana festival has wrapped with other winners including Bianca Scali's It's Just a Whole and the first-ever VR prize at the festival for Adriaan Lokman's Flow VR  

13/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

GoCritic! Interview: Chris Robinson  • Artistic director, Ottawa International Animation Festival

GoCritic! Interview: Chris Robinson • Artistic director, Ottawa International Animation Festival

“I write to figure out what I actually think. The reader goes on this journey with me”

We caught up with Chris Robinson, one of the world's foremost experts on animation and director of Ottawa International Animation Festival  

13/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

GoCritic! Interview: Zahra Salarnia  • Director of No. 28

GoCritic! Interview: Zahra Salarnia • Director of No. 28

"I wanted to uncover the memory of an innocent childhood in a remote, peaceful environment set against the political backdrop of post-revolutionary Iran"

Iranian filmmaker Zahra Salarnia presented her film and we were there to chat with her about this visual journey through the memories of a child born in a war zone  

12/12/2023 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2023

GoCritic! Review: Tender Metalheads

GoCritic! Review: Tender Metalheads

The Spanish feature-length animation directed by Joan Francesc Tomàs Monfort and Carlos Pérez-Reche was the big winner at the 18th edition of Animest in Bucharest  

30/11/2023 | GoCritic! | Animest 2023

GoCritic! Feature: The Corruption of Rationality - Marta Pajek's Retrospective at Animest

GoCritic! Feature: The Corruption of Rationality - Marta Pajek's Retrospective at Animest

The acclaimed Polish animator enjoyed a retrospective at Animest and held a masterclass. Is interpretation always necessary and can it harm the perception of a work of art?  

28/11/2023 | GoCritic! | Animest 2023

GoCritic! Feature: Animest's International Competition 3

GoCritic! Feature: Animest's International Competition 3

The third International Competition block at Animest dealt with numerous topics and included a variety of animation styles, but in this story we focus on three films that explore sexuality  

08/11/2023 | GoCritic! | Animest 2023

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