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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.


225 articles available in total starting from 04/05/2018. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

GoCritic! Interview: Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre  • Director, scholar, founder of MJSTP Films

GoCritic! Interview: Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre • Director, scholar, founder of MJSTP Films

"It is our turn to re-envision the world"

We interviewed the acclaimed Canadian feminist director, producer and scholar who presented her PhD research on feminist discourse in the 1970s Quebec animation at Animafest's Scanner Symposium  

27/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

Four participants set to cover Karlovy Vary for GoCritic!

Four participants set to cover Karlovy Vary for GoCritic!

The second GoCritic! workshop at KVIFF will be tutored by Neil Young  

27/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Karlovy Vary 2019

GoCritic! Review: Ville Neuve

GoCritic! Review: Ville Neuve

Animafest Zagreb's Grand Competition - Feature Film included movies of very different styles and techniques, but this Canadian title stands out for its subtleness and aesthetics  

26/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

A GoCritic! Experience at Animafest Zagreb

A GoCritic! Experience at Animafest Zagreb

Our six participants at Animafest Zagreb look back at all the aspects of the festival, providing useful insight to audiences, professionals and festival organizers alike  

26/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

GoCritic! Review: Under the Rib Cage

GoCritic! Review: Under the Rib Cage

We review a film that did not win any awards at Animafest Zagreb, but many of the audiences and professionals, including the GoCritic! team, found outstanding  

25/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

GoCritic! Comparative Review: Terrible parents in Animafest Competition shorts

GoCritic! Comparative Review: Terrible parents in Animafest Competition shorts

Three impressive and very different films in Animafest's competition deal with difficult situations around family dinner tables, ruled by overbearing and despotic parents  

24/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

GoCritic! Interview: Nancy Denney-Phelps  • Animation journalist and historian

GoCritic! Interview: Nancy Denney-Phelps • Animation journalist and historian

"I like to give positive press to good films"

GoCritic! interviews a critic - an omnipresent figure in the world of animation, and one of the first journalists to focus on this specific niche form  

24/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

GoCritic! Comparative Review: Tough topics in Croatian competition at Animafest

GoCritic! Comparative Review: Tough topics in Croatian competition at Animafest

We look at how Croatian animators treat some difficult themes through various approaches in the Animafest Zagreb competition  

21/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

GoCritic! Shorts Review: Use of Sound in VR in Animafest Competition

GoCritic! Shorts Review: Use of Sound in VR in Animafest Competition

Animafest Zagreb has for the first time introduced a virtual reality competition, and we explore how sound is used in these immersive works  

21/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

GoCritic! Interview: José Luis Ágreda  • Art director of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

GoCritic! Interview: José Luis Ágreda • Art director of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

“We didn’t want to embellish anything”

GoCritic! talked to the art director of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, which screened at Animafest Zagreb and was awarded at Annecy  

19/06/2019 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2019

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