Winner of this year’s Academy Award for best animated feature, Flow is the story of life on a post-apocalyptic world, where all humans have vanished and only animals remain. It is a fable about the importance of cooperation, of working together despite your differences. And it is an animal adventure, starring a delightful cat.
opens as the cat wakes in an abandoned building and notices that the river nearby is flooding. The waters rise, but the cat jumps into a passing boat. Inside is a capybara. And so the adventure begins.
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Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis made the film on free, open-source 3D software called Blender. In its treatment of climate change, the film has been compared to the work of Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli. Zilbalodis’s budget of £3 million, however, was tiny in comparison.
There is so much to enjoy and ponder in the film. I particularly liked how the animals were uncomprehending in the face of climate disaster – just like so many of us.
