#flow (2024)

[yourfaveisintersex]

Cat from Flow (2024) is intersex using they/them pronouns who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), and their variation is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)!

Requested by @chimeraaaaaas

Intersex flag-only edits under the cut!

[caluanthes]

STRAUME / FLOW (2024), dir Gints Zilbalodis

[fivendandelions]

STRAUME / FLOW (2024) — dr. Gints Zilbadolis

🏆 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film

[lumichenart]

A tribute to Flow 🐈‍⬛🌊

I know I’ll carry this film in my heart for the rest of my life~

[celine-song]

Straume (Flow) 2024, dir. Gints Zilbalodis

[crumbpigeon]

flow away

[starberry-cupcake]

not to talk about flow again, but the thing is, a lot of people talk about independent film making and its importance etc, but it's hard to get more independent than flow this year

not only because it was made with a free and open source software anyone can use, not only because it beat competitors from major studios with an average of 3% of the budget they had, not only because it represented a country that had never won an oscar before, not only because it didn't have any star power involved, not only because it didn't come from a filmmaker with past history, not only because it was made by a small team...

but also because it's an animated movie

animators often get the short end of the stick in the entertainment industry and, for the past years, it was starting to look as if the only way to make an animated project happen was to sell your soul to a major studio and see your work transformed into what they need and how they want it marketed

especially for movies from outside the US, from non-English speaking countries, where insanely talented animators tend to be used as freelance cheap labor for major US studios or have to adapt as much as possible to fit into their market in order to find work

passion projects for animation seemed to only be reserved to the shorts category, or needed to be as high brow as humanly possible to be perceived as "high art" to be valued and, even in the spaces of the industry dedicated to the genre, the way in which awards are distributed are a poor reflection of the vast work animators do

it's major for this film to win awards, let alone the oscar, an award which is notably judged badly for animation and often prefers the marketable easy way out of voting rather than genuine interest

this movie used a resource that is open to anyone and, with good storytelling, made an oscar winning film

in a world in which art is constantly being attacked by capitalist greed, I'm happy that a movie with heart and little resources could do something like this, whether or not people care about the oscars anymore

[nyabaaaaaa]

what watching flow makes me feel like T^T

[wikiipediabf]

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE MOVIE STARTS WITH THE CAT LOOKING AT ITS REFLECTION ALONE AND ENDS WITH IT LOOKING AT ITS REFLECTION WITH ITS FAMILY 😭😭😭

[madeleineengland]

You know that in "Flow" they have used real animal sounds, but it was a very difficult task: when Coïc-Gallas (the sound designer) tried to record his cat, it remained completely silent for two weeks because it didn't like the microphone.

Cats don't love workplace as they should 😌

[hannahlockillustration]

Flow.

This is now in UK cinemas, please go catch it if you can!

[otselotus]

GO WATCH FROW GO WATHC FLOW GO WATCH FLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[atesan]

STRAUME / FLOW (2024), dir Gints Zilbalodis

[skulandcrossbones]

FLOW (2024)

dir. Gints Zilbalodis

[terapsina]

Sometimes a family is...

a lonely black cat with trust issues

(who has to learn that sometimes it's okay to accept help)

a kind capybara that's happy to share in its luck

(who portrays how even the most steady presence in your life might need a hand once in a while)

a good dog that just wants to be friends

(who has to learn that sometimes making real friends means learning how not to follow bad ones)

a heroic secretarybird that faces bullies for a stranger

(who shows how sometimes constantly fighting for the right thing can leave one exhausted to the bone)

and a kleptomaniac lemur that just wants to stare at its reflection

(who learns how to let go of the things that don't matter and grab hold of the people who do)

[fivendandelions]

STRAUME / FLOW (2024) — dr. Gints Zilbadolis

for @madworld-bbs