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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)


Screenplay: Gints Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaza, Ron Dyens. Cinematography: Gints Zilbalodis. Art direction: Gints Zilbalodis. Film editing: Gints Zilbalodis. Music: Rihards Zalupe, Gints Zilbalodis. 

Lovely, wordless animated fable about a small gray cat who survives a catastrophic flood with the aid of a dog, a capybara, a ring-tailed lemur, and a secretary bird. Clearly a labor of love for its Latvian writer-director-cinematographer-editor-composer Gints Zilbalodis. Its digital animation lacks the finesse of fur and feathers we're used to in slicker, more sophisticated movies from the established studio animation factories, but it makes up for it in imagination and heart.