REALITY + Đà Nẵng Film Forum invite you for another Film Club Friday, this time with Gints Zilbalodis’s 2024 Latvian/French/Belgian animated film Flow.
A small grey cat lives alone in an empty house at the edge of a forest, surrounded by carved wooden cats left by someone long gone. Then the water starts rising. The cat scrambles onto a drifting sailboat and soon has company: a sleepy capybara, a lemur clutching a basket of shiny things, a Labrador and his pack, and a tall secretary bird. Nobody talks. The animals act like animals, wary and stubborn and easily distracted, and as the flood climbs over forests and stone cities, the cat has to decide whether this crew is worth trusting.
Zilbalodis made his first feature, Away, almost entirely by himself. Flow was made by a small team in Blender, the free open-source 3D software, and went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The camera moves in long, swooping takes through water and ruins, and every animal sound comes from real animals.
Film Club selections are screened in their original languages and shown with both English and Vietnamese subtitles.
Discussion will follow the screening.
Hosted by Michael.
Event is free. Please buy things to support REALITY!