Oscar-winning “Flow” by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis brought Baltic animation to new heights. Now, local creators are figuring out how to benefit from the aftermath of its success. “Sometimes, big fate ...

Animal welfare becomes the responsibility of the animals themselves in the gorgeous, hypnotic Latvian animated feature “Flow,” in which a solitary cat encounters a catastrophic flood and, along with a ...

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And a pussycat shall lead them! Flow, the animated film that’s Latvia’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar, kicks off with a beautiful moment of tranquility: A small, black feline, ...

Director Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow is a cute animal romp about an adorable black kitty — that also happens to be a tense adventure set in a strange, post-apocalyptic world, and one of Polygon’s top 10 ...

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...

There were 23 acceptance speeches delivered by Oscar winners at the 97th Academy Awards last night — but only one in which animals got a shout-out. In accepting his Academy Award for Best Animated ...

From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...