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222 articles available in total starting from 04/05/2018. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

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

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and Living Large triumph at Anifilm

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass and Living Large triumph at Anifilm

Other winners of the Czech animation festival include Gianluigi Toccafondo's The Voice of the Sirens, Mansi Maheshwari's Bunnyhood, Meejin Hong’s Deluge and Jan Saska’s Hurikán  

14/05 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

GoCritic! Interview: Zane Oborenko • Director of short film Kafka in Love

GoCritic! Interview: Zane Oborenko • Director of short film Kafka in Love

“All of this is about translation”

The Latvian animator discusses adaptation and romantic truths in relation to her short film inspired by Franz Kafka’s love letters to writer and journalist Milena Jesenská  

16/01 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024

GoCritic! Interview: Jelena Oroz • Director of short film No Room

GoCritic! Interview: Jelena Oroz • Director of short film No Room

“I wanted to step outside of 2D digital animation – it’s my safe place, and I wanted to try something different”

The Croatian animator talks fast cars, cramped spaces and cinematic revenge during Ljubljana's 21st Animateka International Animated Film Festival  

13/12/2024 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024

GoCritic! Review: Hurikán

GoCritic! Review: Hurikán

Jan Saska’s black-and-white short follows a half-man, half-pig who is sent in pursuit of a fresh keg of beer, leading to a fast-paced chase all around the streets of Prague  

13/12/2024 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024

GoCritic! Review: Keep Out

GoCritic! Review: Keep Out

The animated short film by Tan-Lui Chan tackles a "we live in a society" zeitgeist, inspired by coping mechanisms manifested during the Hong Kong protests and global pandemic of the last years  

13/12/2024 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024

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