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 ...

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 ...

It’s always a pleasure to see a film taht IndieWire has been championing from the very beginning triumph at the Oscars, and now the little cat that could has done just that. “Flow” has won the Oscar ...

Flow is this year's winner for Best Animated Feature. The award was presented at the 97th Academy Awards this year by Andrew Garfield and Goldie Hawn. An outlier among this year's Best Animated ...

Having animals walking and talking like people in animation is a fairly common occurrence, but Flow director Gints Zilbalodis wanted to focus on immersing the viewer in a fully animal perspective.

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 ...

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 ...

On March 2, a cat made Oscars history. Best Animated Feature did not go to Pixar’s Inside Out 2, the highest-grossing animated film of all time (which still resulted in layoffs). Nor did it go to the ...

Like the wide-eyed feline in his dialogue-free film "Flow," Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis often works alone — he directed, wrote, animated and even scored his debut feature, "Away," in 2019. But ...