Flow - Oscar Sunday

Nominated for two Oscars: Best Animated Feature and Best International Film.

The wondrous, breathtaking odyssey of a young cat who, together with her fellow sufferers, searches for dry land on a flooded earth. A beautiful rollercoaster of an adventure. The people have disappeared, but that doesn't seem to bother the cat. The house with the comfortable bed is still there and the river is full of fish. Until the water suddenly starts to rise and very quickly too. The cat barely manages to save itself thanks to a passing sailboat. A capybara, a dog, a lemur and a bird join them. Together they form an unlikely company that must learn to survive in this overwhelming new world. Flow is only his second film, but super talent Gints Zilbalodis is already being called the worthy successor to Hayao Miyazaki. In Flow he creates a mythical, majestic world of sunken ruins, devastating storms and looming forests. The animals and the magical journey they make symbolize something greater, while at the same time the animals remain remarkably themselves. The animators watched hundreds of cat and other animal videos to portray the behavior and communication between the animals as realistically as possible. This groundbreaking animated film elicited superlatives from the international press and left the audience, both adults and children, in delight.