Fresh off its three-award sweep at Annecy Festival, following its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, indie animated feature Flow has secured a new wave of international distribution partners. The pic is the sophomore feature from Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis, who earned global recognition with his one-man effort Away (winner of Annecy’s Contrechamp prize).
Charades is handling international sales for the film, which has already been picked up by Janus Films and Sideshow for North America. Flow is now slated to screen in many key territories: U.K. (through Curzon), Germany (MFA), Italy (Teodora Film Distribuzione), Spain (Filmin), Switzerland (Xenix), Greece (Cinobo), Nordics & Iceland (Njuta Films), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Czech Republic, Slovakia (Film Europe), Hungary (Vertigo Média Ltd.), Poland (So Films), Romania (Bad Unicorn), Israel (Lev Cinema), Lebanon & Gulf (Teleview International), Pan Latin America (Cine Canibal), China (Blue Media Times), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Japan (Fine Films, Inc.), Philippines (Film Development), Singapore (Lighthouse Film Distribution), South Korea (Pancinema), Taiwan (Light Year Images) and India & Airlines (Pictureworks).
The Latvian-Belgian-French co-production will open in Benelux (Le Pare Distribution) and France (UFO) in October.
Rendered in distinctive CGI visuals, Flow has won over critics and festival audiences (receiving a standing ovation at Cannes) with its climate crisis adventure story about a solitary cat who finds refuge from a terrible flood with ragtag animal crew aboard a drifting boat, who all must learn to accept each other and their challenging, changed world.
Zilbalodis directs and wrote the film with Matiss Kaza; produced with Kaza, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman; and composed the music for with Rihards Zalupe. Flow is a co-production of Dream Well Studio (Latvia), Sacrebleu Productions (France) and Take Five (Belgium).
[Source: Variety]
