Three pairs of tiny feet fidgeted under a blanket, eyes were fixed beadily on the TV, and awe-struck jaws closed only around the occasional handful of stove-popped popcorn. It was only five minutes into thе film picked for my family’s traditional Friday movie night and my kids were already hooked. Though it took me a while to be drawn in, the kids caught on right away. The film does not have words. The animation is not fully rendered.

Wordless and unconventionally animated, from the opening scene it’s obvious Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow is not a typical film.