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1420 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 02/09/2025.

GoCritic! Review: Chicken for Linda!

GoCritic! Review: Chicken for Linda!

Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s Anifilm winner is a tender story that juxtaposes adults and children and explores how they are affected by relationships, loss and memory  

28/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

GoCritic! Review: Wander to Wonder

GoCritic! Review: Wander to Wonder

Nina Gantz’s stop-motion spoof is sweeping the festival scene with its haunting yet humorous juxtaposition of sincerity and unease, child-like innocence and an undertone of malice  

28/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival reveals its competition titles

The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival reveals its competition titles

The largest Czech film gathering is poised to showcase a blend of established auteurs and fresh voices, with an emphasis on domestic cinema  

28/05/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024

GoCritic! Feature: Perfectly Puppeteered – Anifilm’s Puppetry Shorts Selection

GoCritic! Feature: Perfectly Puppeteered – Anifilm’s Puppetry Shorts Selection

For its 2024 edition, Liberec’s Anifilm Festival brings puppets to the forefront, showcasing the wonderful humanity found within inanimate objects  

20/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

Chicken for Linda and Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light triumph at Anifilm

Chicken for Linda and Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light triumph at Anifilm

Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach's feature won across international categories, and Filip Pošivač's children's film achieved the same feat in the Czech Horizons programme  

17/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

GoCritic! Review: Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

GoCritic! Review: Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

The winning film of Anifilm’s Czech Horizons competition is a technically marvellous piece of children’s animation that suffers from weak character development and cliched plot  

17/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

GoCritic! Review: Frequency

GoCritic! Review: Frequency

We explore intimacy and the increased level of viewer's participation in VR films based on Japanese artist Ellie Omiya's 30-minute piece which screened in Anifilm's VR Competition  

17/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

GoCritic! Review: Kensuke's Kingdom

GoCritic! Review: Kensuke's Kingdom

Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry's animated adaptation of the beloved Michael Morpurgo's novel is a gentle tale of human bonding with plenty of adventure and excitement  

17/05/2024 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2024

Šimon Holý rounds off his “women trilogy” with Hello, Welcome, a comedy about three actresses

Šimon Holý rounds off his “women trilogy” with Hello, Welcome, a comedy about three actresses

The film, inspired by Hong Sang-soo and Sophie Letourneur, was shot in a semi-guerrilla style on location at the 2023 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival  

13/05/2024 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic

The Zlín Film Festival set to showcase diverse youth cinema from around the globe

The Zlín Film Festival set to showcase diverse youth cinema from around the globe

The 64th iteration of the Czech gathering, the world's largest and oldest festival dedicated to children's and youth cinema, will feature a vast selection of 293 films from 55 countries  

13/05/2024 | Zlín 2024

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