We begin 2026 with a beautiful animated film about a wide-eyed curious cat and other animals seeking refuge on a boat as their human-free world of eerie buildings and enormous statues is inexplicably and rapidly flooded. 

As the waters carry them along, they traverse magical, submerged landscapes, and are exposed to dangerous elemental forces. The film, which does not anthropomorphise the animals by giving them human speech or names, nonetheless shows them as having distinct personalities: a sleepy capybara, a jolly labrador retriever, a narcissistic ring-tailed lemur, and a majestic white secretary bird, brought together by the dangers they encounter to use their various skills to survive as a group. Sound designer Gurwal Coïc-Gallas used real animal sounds for each character – in particular his own cat Miut.  A mysterious fable for our times, Flow has become the most attended film in Latvia’s history and won the 2025 Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.  Madman