**[https://www.harrogatefilmsociety.org/event-details/flow](https://www.harrogatefilmsociety.org/event-details/all-we-imagine-as-light)** **Flow \| 2024 \| U \| Dir\. Gints Zilbalodis \| Latvia \| IMDb 7\.9 \| No dialogue \| 85 mins** “A joy to experience.” – The Hollywood Reporter “Utterly mesmerising.” – Sight and Sound “It’s rare to feel like you’re watching something entirely new.” – IndieWire “Absolutely blew me away.” – Ruth, HFS Committee “It’s the best animation I’ve seen in years.” – Marwood, former HFS Committee Wowing awards panels, professional critics and past and present members of your committee alike, HFS proudly invites you to join us for our big-screen presentation of the first Latvian film to win an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, for Best Animated Feature in both cases, and the first independent film to win an Oscar in that category. It was also Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature. Directed, co-written and co-produced by Gints Zilbalodis, this beautifully animated Latvian box office record-breaker premiered in the *Un Certain Regard* section at Cannes in 2024, five and-a-half years after its production began. It is a story of distinct individuals thrown together in the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster, who must form a team, learn from each other and co-operate to survive. We meet Cat, the central character, out patrolling its territory and hunting for food. After opportunistically stealing a fish from a pack of dogs who then give chase, Cat manages to escape the dogs and then dodge a stampeding herd of deer, moments before the animals’ island home is swamped by a flood caused by a huge tidal wave. Cat reaches the highest point it can find and surveys the scene. All hope seems lost, until, on the horizon, it spots a drifting sailing boat. Scrambling aboard, Cat is astonished to find Capybara already there. This unlikely pair are steadily joined by an increasingly diverse group of other animals, including Lemur and Secretary

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