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658 articles available in total starting from 27/07/2005. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Paula Ďurinová • Director of Action Item

Interview: Paula Ďurinová • Director of Action Item

“I wanted to recognise how the politics of destruction, violence and a crumbling democracy affect our mental health”

The Slovak-born, Berlin-based director talks about the making of her film, and her shift from character-driven storytelling to a collage approach  

17/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

GoCritic! Feature: Through the curves of bodies and the sketches of imagination at the 18th Fest Anča

GoCritic! Feature: Through the curves of bodies and the sketches of imagination at the 18th Fest Anča

Solidarity and warmth shone through the 2025 edition of Slovakia’s Fest Anča International Animation Film Festival  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: An audiovisual journey through the Music Video Competition at Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: An audiovisual journey through the Music Video Competition at Fest Anča 2025

The 13 visually and sonically stunning music videos of the competition’s first block hurtle through real and imagined places  

17/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Mama Micra

GoCritic! Review: Mama Micra

Rebecca Blöcher’s short film animates a mother-daughter bond too fragile to hold  

16/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 2025

GoCritic! Review: Off-Time

GoCritic! Review: Off-Time

Screening at Fest Anča, Nata Metlukh’s short summons us to kill time before it kills us first, while exploring why we feel the need to talk about productivity  

16/07 | GoCritic! | Fest Anča 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

Miro Remo • Director of Better Go Mad in the Wild

Interview: Miro Remo • Director of Better Go Mad in the Wild

"I focused on the wild elements within the twin brothers and was guided by magic moments"

We sat down with the Slovak director, who won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary and who revealed that he went into €50,000 worth of debt when making his last two films  

15/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Ondřej Provazník • Director of Broken Voices

Interview: Ondřej Provazník • Director of Broken Voices

"We wanted to create a world that you can trust - one that would be fragile and gentle, yet also threatening and suspenseful"

We caught up with the Czech director to discuss his Special Jury Mention-winning film, a deeply affecting work about a scandal in a girls' choir  

15/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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

Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild

Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild

Miro Remo's newest genre-defying hybrid work provides an insight into two twins living in the wild, a kind of life that might seem unbelievable for many viewers  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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