The 2024 Latvian adventure film Flow has bagged an Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. Surely that is big news for Latvia, a small country that has now won its first Oscar with ...

In an early scene establishing the post-diluvial landscape of the Golden Globe-winning animated feature Flow, the hero cat prowls a sunlit forest when a threatening rumbling begins. Suddenly, a ...

Flow animated film by Gints Zilbalodis Image via Dream Well Studio Some of the best films are made on a small budget, and for the Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis, money did not equate to creative ...

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 ...