(toSkanews) – Director Gints Zilbalodis is still incredulous: Flow has defeated cartoon of the caliber of Inside Out 2 And he conquered the Oscar for the best animated film. An unexpected success for the Latvian ecological work that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival a A Certain Regard In 2024, enchanting the public, he was presented in various festivals in the world, including the Rome Film Festival, in Alice in the city, won the Golden Globe and now the prestigious statuette of the Academy.
A kitten beats Inside Out 2: the triumph of the film Flow to the Oscars 2025
Made with a budget of 6 million dollars, Flow – A world to saveThis is the title in Italy, is without dialogues and tells the adventure of a kitten that tries to escape an induction, in a world where human beings seem to have disappeared, saving themselves on a boat, together with a group of animals.
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«It is the first Latvian film that has achieved this recognition and this attention worldwide, so it is a special feeling here for people – says the director – but it is also a film other than what people are used to seeing. So I think it’s simply something that surprises people and wants to show something new and works for both children and adults. It wasn’t really intentional, we weren’t trying to make a great commercial film ».
Incredible, he says, that its value has been recognized for the idea behind, rather than quality, in the face of the great budgets hit by the Studios. And the cat is a character who resembles him, says the director, is independent at the beginning but must learn to trust others and to collaborate, a bit like him who started alone before working in a team.
The cat protagonist of the Flow animation movie
In addition, he says, the cat and other animals are really protagonists, not minor or support characters and a strong empathy is created with them. «I think this shows that we can get in touch with this type of characters, because we have much more in the Municipality than we might think with them. We all share the same fears, the same instincts and the same needs. So the animation can make a story like this much more engaging, which could not be done in any other way, because things can be pushed further and being more expressive ».
Flow It will be available from March 6 in streaming on CGTV.it and on the main platforms including first videos, Apple TV+, Google TV, YouTube, Timvision, Infinity and Chili, thanks to CG Entertainment and Teodora Film.
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