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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: TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road

GoCritic! Review: TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road

Blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, Frederic Siegel’s surreal animated short recalls the familiar parental warning about the dangers of television  

15/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Poetry in pain – Reflections from O!PLA Focus on Poland vol. 12 at Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Poetry in pain – Reflections from O!PLA Focus on Poland vol. 12 at Fest Anča 2025

Within the selection of Polish animated shorts, a poetic approach shone through common themes of loss, isolation and fragility  

15/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Deconstructing obesity in Living Large

GoCritic! Review: Deconstructing obesity in Living Large

Kristina Dufková’s animated hit subverts expectations while trodding a familiar narrative path and, in the process, deals with obesity as a cinematic theme in a fresh and healthy way  

02/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Review: Invisions

GoCritic! Review: Invisions

Shunshaku Hayashi’s first animated feature is an experimental, impressionistic film that resembles the experience of a drug trip on a distant planet, except the drug was inside us all along  

02/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Review: Hurikán

GoCritic! Review: Hurikán

Jan Saska’s latest short hurtles us through the streets of Prague on a quest to keep the beer flowing  

01/07 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

Dull Spots of Greenish Colours and Memoir of a Snail triumph at Animafest

Dull Spots of Greenish Colours and Memoir of a Snail triumph at Animafest

Other winners include On Weary Wings Go By, Mother’s Child, Psychonauts and Snow Bear, while the audience favoured Czech films Living Large and Hurikán  

13/06 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Review: Deluge

GoCritic! Review: Deluge

Meejin Hong’s mesmerising, hand-drawn, black-and-white infinite animation explores the limitations of time and space, questioning the illusion of abundance and infinity in both art and life  

13/06 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2025

GoCritic! Review: Living Large

GoCritic! Review: Living Large

Kristina Dufková’s animated hit explores the complexities of puberty and self-perception with sincerity, delivering an affirmative message even if its setting and story arc are quite familiar  

11/06 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

GoCritic! Review: Savages

GoCritic! Review: Savages

Claude Barras’ second feature tells a story of environmental precarity in Borneo’s rainforest, where family is the last line of defence against the expansion of the local palm oil plantation  

21/05 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

GoCritic! Feature: “That’s What She Said, Vol. 2”

GoCritic! Feature: “That’s What She Said, Vol. 2”

We take a look at the second instalment of the Animation Festival Network’s compilation of shorts by female filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe  

15/05 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

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