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677 articles available in total starting from 05/12/2006. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

GoCritic! Review: On Hold

GoCritic! Review: On Hold

Delia Hess' festival-opener world premiering in Animafest Zagreb’s Short Film Competition depicts time at a standstill  

03/07/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

Review: Real

Review: Real

Oleh Sentsov’s record of the Russo-Ukrainian war, shot in the trenches themselves, is a compelling piece of “accidental” filmmaking  

30/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Special Screenings

GoCritic! Review: Nube

GoCritic! Review: Nube

This Mexican short animation tells a moving story about loss and revival, reminding us of the uplifting feeling of being alive by inviting us to follow the circle of life from above as well as below  

26/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

GoCritic! Review: To Be a Seed

GoCritic! Review: To Be a Seed

Mexican director Julia Tostado recontextualises a 17th-century folk legend to convey a modern feminist message using authentic natural materials in the short film animation process  

26/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

GoCritic! Review: The Miracle

GoCritic! Review: The Miracle

Nienke Deutz’s Animafest Zagreb Grand Prix Short Film winner follows a lonely middle-aged woman who struggles to relax in a paradise-like summer resort  

26/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

GoCritic! Review: Žarko, You Will Spoil the Child!

GoCritic! Review: Žarko, You Will Spoil the Child!

Milivoj and Veljko Popović’s Animafest prize-winning short uses various animation techniques to tell a heart-warming, humorous story of growing up in Croatia in the late 1980s  

20/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

GoCritic! Review: Pelikan Blue

GoCritic! Review: Pelikan Blue

László Csáki’s animated documentary tells a specifically local story that’s universally enjoyable thanks to dynamic, breezy storytelling  

20/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

Review: Pavilion 6

Review: Pavilion 6

Croatian director Goran Dević’s COVID-19 documentary takes a sober look at the era, and turns what seems like a bad dream into a vehicle for compassion and healing  

19/06/2024 | Sheffield Doc Fest 2024

GoCritic! Feature: Disgusting Miracles – Body images in stop-motion at Animafest Zagreb 2024

GoCritic! Feature: Disgusting Miracles – Body images in stop-motion at Animafest Zagreb 2024

We look at five shorts across Animafest Zagreb’s Short and Student competition sections, which use stop motion to explore various aspects of our relationships with our bodies  

18/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

GoCritic! Review: it’s just a whole

GoCritic! Review: it’s just a whole

Bianca Scali’s graduate short plays with textures and semantics to tell a story of the universal and existential combat with corporeal form  

18/06/2024 | GoCritic! | Animafest Zagreb 2024

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