Gibsons – Monday, October 6, 7:30 pm
Sechelt – Thursday, October 9, 2:00 pm
Latvia 2024, 85 min, Animation
Director: Gints Zibalodis
Winner of the 2025 Academy Award for Animated Feature Film, Flow is a magical and beautifully crafted story of how its characters survive a catastrophic event. In this case it is a flood, which forces Cat to escape the rising waters and band together with other animals affected by the event.
The film was directed and co-written by Latvian Gints Zibalodis, who describes it thus: “The film shows that you can’t just overcome your fears and find that your life is perfect. Even though we have climate change motifs, it could be about any kind of catastrophe, whether it’s war or something more personal like starting a new life. The cat is constantly climbing up things to escape its world…. The cat has to climb back down to face those fears and leave its comfort zone.”