"Flow" by Gints Zilbalodis has won the French National Cinematography Award "César" in the category "Best Animated Feature".
French company Sacrebleu Productions is one of the three co-production partners, and it was in France that the international success of "Flow" began, with its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024 and four prizes at the Annecy Film Festival in June.
Two French filmmakers were competing alongside each other in this category - Michel Hazanavitch's animation The Most Precious of Cargoes and Claude Barras' animation Savages, which was also nominated for a European Film Academy Award but lost out to Latvia's Flow at the ceremony.
In the cinemas in Paris, Flow was screened shortly after Cannes (May 29 - June), in a joint programme with the other films form the competition Uncertain regard, but on October 30 the distribution of the film began in the cinemas in France - UFO Distribution screened it immediately in 15 cinemas in Paris and in almost 300 cinemas outside the capital. Within a month and a half, Flow became the third most successful film of the year in the AlloCiné catalogue, and by the end of December, it had reached half a million admissions in French cinemas. In Europe, film is distributed by the French company Charades with the support of the European CE MEDIA Fund.
The film is financially supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation, EURIMAGES, the French National Film Centre, television Arte and Canal+, as well as various regional funds and support programmes in France and Belgium. The film was created as a co-production of three countries - Dream Well Studio (Latvia), Sacrebleu Productions (France) and Take Five (Belgium).
More information: Matīss Kaža | producer | matiss@dreamwell.lv