Animation· 2024· Adventure

Straume (Flow)

by Gints Zilbalodis

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  • Cats
  • Floods
  • Animal intelligence

A wordless film about a cat surviving a great flood with a dog, a capybara, a lemur and a secretary bird. The animals make only their real sounds, and the animators built their movement from observed animal behaviour rather than human gesture.

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Straume (Flow)

Flow is a 2024 independent animated dystopian adventure film directed by Gints Zilbalodis, written and produced by Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža. A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production, it features no dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive along with other animals in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world as the water level dramatically rises.

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