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Latvia’s Oscar entry for Best International Film is one of those rare co-viewing treats: a movie for kids that’s also for adults. Or, is it the other way around? FLOW is an animated allegory about climate change, it tells the story of an intrepid black cat facing down a flood – that promises to be much more than that. Fortuitously landing on a makeshift boat, the cat meets other, similarly stranded animals all relying on their instincts – not humans, not dialogue – to survive; the animals don’t need any of that – their inner lives, turned inside out, are expressed through the film’s robust and mothering magical realism. FLOW is not a slick CGI studio film, and its beautiful plea is not a frontal assault; however, the children who must live in this world we’ve left them will still likely sense the questions swimming around these adorable, phantasmagorical fellow animals. Winner of the European Film Academy Award for Best European Animated Film of the Year, it was also just named to the Oscar Shortlist for Best International Feature Film. It is also nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award, Golden Globe and two Critics Choice Awards.

Tuesday, March 18th at 1pm & 7pm