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 ...

For Gints Zilbalodis, it all started with a cat. Zilbalodis was still in high school, in Latvia, and dreaming of a career in animation, when he created a short film inspired by his pet feline. It was ...

The 97th Academy Awards gave the Latvian animated film Flow the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Directed, written, edited, ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

The 7th Annual Animation Is Film Festival wrapped up with the announcement that Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” took the Grand Prize, while “Memoir of a Snail” won the Special Jury Prize and tied with “The ...

The writer/director tells IndieWire about applying a purely visual style to his epic animated film about a black cat escaping a flood. “I’ve never had dialogue in any of the films I’ve made, so I ...

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 ...

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After a tense awards-season race for Best Animated Feature, Flow pulled ahead for the win at Sunday night’s 97th Oscars. With their win, Flow beat out Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, Wallace & Gromit ...

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 ...