Flow Movie
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Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Actors: N/A
PlotA lone dark-grey cat lives in a quiet cabin by a river, surviving on small catches and the shell of a once-ordered life. Tension rises when a pack of dogs confronts the cat over food, a deer stampede fractures the calm, and a sudden, colossal flood annihilates the familiar landscape. The cat scrambles to higher ground, watches its cabin sink, and clambers atop a submerged statue before leaping aboard a drifting sailboat occupied by a solitary capybara. The tableau establishes a world where water has reclaimed the land and everyday survival is reshaped by currents and makeshift alliances.
As the small boat navigates a drowned forest and skeletal ruins, the cat slips overboard, nearly drowns, and is pulled from the depths by an enormous, strangely altered whale; later, it is seized midair by a white secretarybird and glimpses distant, towering stone pillars that promise refuge or danger. Along the way the cat encounters other animals—a yellow Labrador from its past, wary boat-dwellers, and mutated creatures—each meeting revealing new rules of this oceanic wilderness and forcing the cat to confront its fear of water and trust. The plot follows these early trials, sensory encounters, and shifting alliances as the protagonist learns to move through a world remade by flood.
Writers: Gints Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaza, Ron Dyens
Runtime: 85 min
Rating: PG
Country: Latvia, Belgium, France
Language: None
Physical Media Reviews
A mesmerizing, dialogue-free 85 minutes; Criterion’s 4K/Blu-ray offers pristine presentation, plus Zilbalodis’s Away.




