Flow

Flow (Straume), 2024

(85 min, animation, Latvia/France)

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 SOFT POWER (2023) and THE NATIONAL NETWORK (2025).

He teaches film directing at the Latvian Academy of Culture.

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