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330 articles available in total starting from 10/10/2005. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

Interview: Viktor Tauš • Director of Girl America

"Hope and faith have a transformative power"

The Czech filmmaker delves into his newest film, about a little girl in a strict socialist orphanage who tries to overcome fears, insecurity and loneliness  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Girl America

Review: Girl America

Viktor Tauš delivers a visually bold and theatre-infused, kaleidoscopic coming-of-age fantasy drama  

18/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Nobody Likes Me

Review: Nobody Likes Me

Petr Kazda and Tomáš Weinreb follow up their breakthrough debut I, Olga Hepnarová with an intimate psychological drama tackling a taboo issue  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Critics' Picks

Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

Interview: Marek Šulík • Director of Ms. President

“People can hate women in power because they’ve been told to hate them”

We talked to the Slovak filmmaker, whose documentary has already triumphed in Ji.hlava, about the challenges of filming the former leader of his country  

14/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Doc@PÖFF

Review: Year of the Widow

Review: Year of the Widow

Filmmaker Veronika Lišková steps into fiction filmmaking, tracing the quiet yet resilient journey of a woman reshaping her life in the wake of unexpected loss  

14/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Review: World Between Us

Review: World Between Us

Marie Dvořáková delivers an unembellished portrait of photographer Marie Tomanová’s journey from a rural Czech upbringing to New York’s art world  

04/11/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Review: Ms. President

Review: Ms. President

Marek Šulík's time-lapse documentary provides a measured portrait of Zuzana Čaputová's historic and turbulent tenure as Slovakia’s first female head of state  

30/10/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Review: Limits of Europe

Review: Limits of Europe

Apolena Rychlíková's immersive documentary shows the drama of cheap labourers working in Western Europe  

29/10/2024 | Astra 2024

Šimon Holý wraps the shoot for Chica Checa

Šimon Holý wraps the shoot for Chica Checa

The Czech director’s latest film blends social realism with a touch of humour and melancholy, touching upon the themes of identity, ageing, coming out and social norms  

17/10/2024 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia/France

GoCritic! launches call for participants for workshops at five animation festivals

GoCritic! launches call for participants for workshops at five animation festivals

Ten participants will be selected for workshops of film journalism and criticism, which now also include a video component, at five member festivals of the Animation Festival Network  

23/09/2024 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024/Anifilm Liberec 2025/Animafest Zagreb 2025/Fest Anča 2025/Animest 2025

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