Flow

ARTIST FEATURE

This program presents Flow that won the Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards®. After the screening, director Gints ZILBALODIS and animation director OSHIYAMA Kiyotaka (Look Back) will discuss their independent approaches to small-scale production and share new perspectives on animation.

Synopsis

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, it finds refuge on a boat populated by various species and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

INFORMATION

Director：Gints ZILBALODIS

2024 | Latvia, France, Belgium | 85 min
Distributor: Fine Films
Eirin: G Selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (for youth / adults / families)

https://flow-movie.com/

PROFILE

Gints ZILBALODIS

Gints Zilbalodis(1994) is a Latvian filmmaker best known for directing ‘Flow’ (2024) which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was also nominated for Best International Feature Film becoming the first independent feature film to win this award and the first Latvian film to be nominated. Zilbalodis debut feature film ‘Away’, which he made entirely by himself, won the Best Feature Film Contrechamp Award in Annecy. Prior to ‘Away’ he made 7 short films in various mediums including hand-drawn animation, 3D animation and live-action and often mixing their characteristic aesthetics. In 2019 he founded Dream Well Studio.

OSHIYAMA Kiyotaka

Born in 1982 in Fukushima, Japan. Kiyotaka Oshiyama began his career as an animator in 2004, and by 2006, he served as animation director on Dennō Coil. Since then, he has played a wide range of roles across various anime productions and studios, including director, screenwriter, and designer.

In 2017, he established the animation studio Studio Durian and created the original short film SHISHIGARI.

In 2024, he released the feature-length animated film Look Back, for which he served as director, screenwriter, character designer, chief animation director, and key animator. The film garnered widespread acclaim, receiving numerous awards including the 48th Japan Academy Prize, the 34th Japan Film Critics Award, the 49th Hochi Film Award, and the 16th TAMA Film Award.

ARTIST FEATURE

Flow

SCHEDULE

2025.11.24　16:30: NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT THEATER
Theater 1
Screening and TalkGuests on the StageEnglish Interpretation