Animation

FLOW

2024
1 HR, 24 min
DEC 6 → DEC 19

Details

Released November 22, 2024, Latvia, France, Belgium

Animation

1 hour, 24 minutes

Sideshow / Janus Films

None

Starring

No starring credits.

Director

Gints Zilbalodis

Film Information

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.

Additional Credits

Gints Zilbalodis Director

Reviews

“Because Zilbalodis rejects so many expectations of animated animals — from their appearance to their movements and their noises — Flow has an exciting spontaneity, as if truly anything could happen. And what ultimately does is epic and emotional. […] Refusing to pander to its audience, Flow is an animated adventure that is poignant, unique, absolutely gorgeous, and a must-see.”

Kristy Puchko

Mashable

“It’s not just a supreme example of a movie kids will love that adults will too. With its wordlessness, this is a film that could play in any country of the world, its capacity to reach literally everyone limitless.”

Christian Blauvelt

IndieWire

“Flow is a heartwarming animal adventure tale that half mourns, half celebrates the extinction of humankind. […] The natural world [Zilbalodis] lovingly depicts is, after all, a human vision, even if it’s a vision of humans removed. Flow is a lovely, ambivalent promise that the world can go on without its humans, even as it illustrates (in various senses) our inability to imagine a world in which we, or our stand-ins, are gone.”

Noah Berlatsky

Chicago Reader