Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “No other Latvian film has had this kind of reach in festivals or distribution,” director and co-writer Gints Zilbalodis tells ...

In Flow, one of 2024’s best animated movies, a little black cat navigates a post-apocalyptic world full of rising floodwaters. The feline protagonist flees threats and chases fish, scurries up trees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the surprises of the awards season is Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — the dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s emotional journey ...

The story of a cat and his friends. Flow is an animated film made by the Latvian filmmaker named Gints Zilbalodis, his second feature after making Away (in 2019) which was a fable about loneliness. He ...

Like the wide-eyed feline in his dialogue-free film "Flow," Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis often works alone — he directed, wrote, animated and even scored his debut feature, "Away," in 2019. But ...

Over the 95-year history of the Academy Awards, a Latvian film has never been nominated for an Oscar. In 2025, it’s possible that Gints Zilbalodis’ celebrated wonder “Flow” will earn not only an ...

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Radically different from the look or feel of other toons (and yet strangely video game-like in its design), the hypnotic CG feature follows a group of animals adapting to a waterlogged world. An ...

Having animals walking and talking like people in animation is a fairly common occurrence, but Flow director Gints Zilbalodis wanted to focus on immersing the viewer in a fully animal perspective.

The 97th Academy Awards gave the Latvian animated film Flow the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Directed, written, edited, and produced by Glints Zilbalodis, this dialogue-free movie has made history ...