🎬 Flow (2024)
A dialogue-free, Latvian-French-Belgian animated feature directed by Gints Zilbalodis, starring a cat navigating a flooded, post-apocalyptic world. Along its journey, it befriends a capybara, a dog, a lemur, and a secretary bird aboard a small sailboat :contentReference[oaicite:12]{index=12}.
🎯 Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
🎬 Written & Directed by: Gints Zilbalodis
🎼 Music: Gints Zilbalodis & Rihards Zaļupe :contentReference[oaicite:13]{index=13}
🕒 Runtime: 84 min • 📅 Released: Cannes May 2024; theatrically Aug 29 2024; global theaters/streaming in 2025 :contentReference[oaicite:14]{index=14}
💰 Budget & Box‑Office: €3.5 M → €50 M+ :contentReference[oaicite:15]{index=15}
Critics praised it for its visuals and subtle narrative. It holds a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes :contentReference[oaicite:16]{index=16}. *Financial Times* highlighted the water animation as “spellbinding” :contentReference[oaicite:17]{index=17}, while *AP* described the wordless tale as a powerful ecological allegory :contentReference[oaicite:18]{index=18}.
Audience reactions on Reddit include:
“Oh I cried and cried … The ending 😭” :contentReference[oaicite:19]{index=19}
“Flow was the most beautiful movie that I saw in 2024… Cinematography was amazing.” :contentReference[oaicite:20]{index=20}Yet a dissenting voice claimed:
“Lazy plot… Do not waste your time.” :contentReference[oaicite:21]{index=21}