Flow

Flow (Straume), 2024

(85 min, animation)

Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

CREDITS
Director
Gints Zilbalodis
Producers
Matīss KažaGints ZilbalodisRon DyensGregory Zalcman
Writers
Gints ZilbalodisMatīss Kaža
Composers
Gints ZilbalodisRihards Zaļupe
Editor
Gints Zilbalodis
Sound Designer
Gurwal Coic-Gallas
Director of Animation
Leo Silly-Pellisier
Produced by
Dream Well Studio / Sacrebleu Productions / Take Five
FESTIVALS
Cannes Film Festival 2024 (World Premiere)
Un Certain Regard
Annecy Film Festival 2024
Feature Film Competition - Jury Award, Audience Award, Gan Foundation Award, Best Music Award
Shanghai International Film Festival 2024
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2024
Best International Animation Film
STILLS

Matīss Kaža

Matīss Kaža is an Academy Award-winning Latvian producer, director and writer. He is best known for co-writing and producing the animated feature film “Flow” (2024) by Gints Zilbalodis, which won the first ever Golden Globe and Oscar for an independent animated feature. Recent producing credits include “Sisters" (2022, Warsaw Film Festival 1+2 Competition Winner) by Linda Olte, "Drowning Dry" (2024, two awards in the Locarno Main Competition) by Laurynas Bareiša. Matīss has directed and written for live action, documentary and the theatre, including “Neon Spring” (2022, Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival) and critically acclaimed performances at the Latvian National Theatre, like “The Soft Power” (2023) and “The National Network” (2025). He teaches film directing at the Latvian Academy of Culture.

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