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‘Flow’, by Gints Zilbalodis.[1]

Above: a screenshot shared with ‘Flow’ (2024) by the young Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis. Oscar nominee as best international film and then awarded as best animated film at the 2025 Oscar awards, it has been made with a minimum budjet: the director, who is a co-producer of the film, also took care of the screenplay, of the photography,  of the soundtrack where the special sound of the marimba stands out.

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In the world of cinema the award ceremony of ‘Flow’ - a plain and immense film - played havoc, an innocent havoc: awarding is not victory, it is shared consensus by those who can express a formal judgement. Technically the film is not perfect, without any dialogue but sounds are perfectly localizable: and death – here of a brave friend, first helmsman in the storm – really is when one’s feet no longer rest on the ground, therefore even a choice.

With the powerful language of night dreams and lapsus which are able to become reality  - it escapes many who also have it available - this very prudent, little and not at all animal protagonist can use thinking and that principle, of pleasure and life, which only in an unstoppable solution with the other can move: and the formal residual that no one can forbid so remains staying afloat. Everything in fact revolves around the Nature of Life that here has nothing to do because it is the ability to stand on one’s own feet that is matched and introduces to the partnership – profit and benefit without duties – and it is the judgement to make partners of one’s peers that gives power : a biblical flood can make even the most wicked people meek, narrow-mindedness and perfidy receive support from the indifference of Nature – but it is not the damage that prompts the relationship, autocracy has short and deceptive ambitions, even in the abyss – it is incredible indeed – it consoles itself.

Awarding is not victory – we’ve mentioned – and, realistically, an ending is excluded, as naivety would claim instead : but a real advantage, even quantifiable, there is indeed. Rather a profit.

Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – April 26, 2025

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[1] Gints Zilbalodis was born in 1994 in Riga (Latvia) where he graduated in 2014 in ‘Multimedia Design’ at the ‘Academy of Fine Arts’: his ‘Away’ (2019) was awarded at the ‘International Festival of animated film’ in Annecy.