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 ...

The modest independent film has upended the animated feature race, going toe-to-toe with the likes of Inside Out 2, Moana 2 and The Wild Robot. Not only has it beaten those Hollywood heavyweights for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's both liberating and unsettling to watch the end of the world through an animal's eyes in Gints Zilbalodis' acclaimed fable of flood times. A lean black cat examines itself in a pool of water.

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And a pussycat shall lead them! Flow, the animated film that’s Latvia’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar, kicks off with a beautiful moment of tranquility: A small, black feline, ...

A big winner at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, and Latvia's entry for the Oscar, Gints Zilbalodis' film hits U.S. theaters on Nov. 22 after its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival. By Scott ...

An adorable grey cat with amber eyes is the central character in Gints Zilbalodis' exquisite animated feature, Flow, which means the movie qualifies as maybe the most arresting cat video ever. Set in ...

Flow, Latvia’s wordless adventure story about a cat surviving a fantastical flood, has made quite a splash this awards season. “No other Latvian film has had this kind of reach in festivals or ...