The Gist: Let’s just call this cat Cat. We meet him (her? It?) as he gazes at his reflection in a puddle. Is this cat self-aware? That may be what this movie is ultimately about. The world that Cat ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Latvian animated fable Flow (now streaming on VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is one of those nontraditional films that find a way to sneak into the awards race and ...

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 ...

The writer/director tells IndieWire about applying a purely visual style to his epic animated film about a black cat escaping a flood.

Zilbalodis tells IndieWire about working in Blender to create an emotive, evocative animation style. Focused on a cat, who reluctantly ends up in the same boat as a set of other animals amid a flooded ...

Oscar-winning “Flow” by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis brought Baltic animation to new heights. Now, local creators are figuring out how to benefit from the aftermath of its success. “Sometimes, big fate ...