One of the surprises of the awards season is Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — the dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s emotional journey as it learns to survive after a great flood — which upended the ...

There's a deceptive simplicity to Flow. The premise of this animated film seems familiar: A motley band of animals join together to survive a terrible threat. But part of what makes co-writer/director ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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