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675 articles available in total starting from 27/07/2005. Last article published on 04/12/2025.

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

Review: Action Item

Review: Action Item

Paula Ďurinová’s observational-essayistic hybrid documentary reframes mental health problems as a systemic condition, rather than an individual struggle  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Review: Duchoň

Review: Duchoň

Slovak director Peter Bebjak charts the rise and fall of a Czechoslovak pop singer and examines state-sanctioned stardom behind the Iron Curtain  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

Review: Promise, I’ll Be Fine

Review: Promise, I’ll Be Fine

Katarína Gramatová’s feature debut is a coming-of-age tale filled with hard truths, set in the heart of the Slovak countryside  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

Dužan Duong • Director of Summer School, 2001

Interview: Dužan Duong • Director of Summer School, 2001

“One of the main themes here is masculinity, as all of the male characters are struggling in different ways”

The Hanoi-born, Czech-raised filmmaker discusses his movie’s mosaic-like storytelling and genre-shifting structure  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

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