Flow
Enchantingly beautiful animation film about a stubborn black cat that has to share a small boat with a group of other animals after a terrible flood. This turns out to be an even bigger challenge than surviving the flood itself.
Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species and will have to team up with them despite their differences. Cat teams up with a sleepy capybara, a lemur obsessed with shiny objects, an overly friendly Labrador, and an enormous, crane-like bird. The unlikely menagerie has no choice but to stay together on a rickety boat as they navigate the strange and rapidly changing new environment they find themselves in. The animals even learn new skills from each other, strengthening their chances of survival.
Combining beautiful animation with a captivating and stirring score, the world that director Gints Zilbalodis has created is lush, intriguing and mesmerising. Adults and children alike will love both the drama and humour that stem from acute observations of real behaviour exhibited by each animal.
FLOW is a love letter to the natural world that not only holds a mirror up to our own conflicted reality, and particularly the human tendency to focus on individualism, but also beautifully examines the complex inner lives of animals.
Winner of four awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, widely regarded as the world’s premier animation film festival.