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289 articles available in total starting from 04/05/2018. Last article published on 05/08/2026.

GoCritic! Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

GoCritic! Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

Momoko Seto's film blends time-lapse photography and 3D animation to follow four dandelions on an eye-catching cinematic journey through ecological collapse  

05/08 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Matas Pakutinskas  • Director of Little October

GoCritic! Interview: Matas Pakutinskas • Director of Little October

“I don’t feel it’s right for young people to put themselves on the line for other people’s goals”

The Lithuanian animator and illustrator shares the real-life inspirations and his use of strong colour-blocking in his short film  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Tommaso Zerbi  • Director of Time Flies

GoCritic! Interview: Tommaso Zerbi • Director of Time Flies

“It’s a statement about the society that pushes us to be productive and manifesto about being useless”

The Italian animator explores the absurdity behind his award-winning film as an invitation to the audience to reclaim their own time  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Katrina Larner  • Director of Play Fight!

GoCritic! Interview: Katrina Larner • Director of Play Fight!

“Each girl discovers something about herself and the dynamics of social life”

The US multimedia animator discusses her animation techniques and more in this film set at a girls' slumber party  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Interview: Šimon Mészáros  • Director of Quantum Jump

GoCritic! Interview: Šimon Mészáros • Director of Quantum Jump

“It’s a part of the story of what is real and what is not”

The Slovak director and animator shares his artistic ideas behind the film and its dialogue with artificially generated imagery  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2026

GoCritic! Review: So He Grabbed the Knife

GoCritic! Review: So He Grabbed the Knife

The Japanese animated short by Sam Kuwa explores the devastating loss of innocence entirely through the anxious perspective of a young boy  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

GoCritic! Review: Paper Trail

GoCritic! Review: Paper Trail

The short animation by Don Hertzfeldt explores the bittersweet tragedy of growing up entirely through scraps of paper  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

GoCritic! Review: Beetles

GoCritic! Review: Beetles

Animator Piotr Chmielewski relays an important message in his new short, produced with the NGO Polish Humanitarian Action  

28/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

Jack Wedge, William Freudenheim • Directors of Acid City

Interview: Jack Wedge, William Freudenheim • Directors of Acid City

"That perspective really came from a desire to focus on how this place works and what the lives of the people who live here actually feel like"

The New York-based filmmakers explore new ways to render the feeling of home in times of ecological collapse  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

Jon Frickey • Director of Ploo

Interview: Jon Frickey • Director of Ploo

“Eternity only really exists in mathematics”

The German filmmaker talks digital immortality and the "sweet spot" between kitsch and silliness  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2026

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