Flow: dir Gints Zilbalodis (2024)

An absolutely stunning low-budget (and largely handmade) antidote to Disneyification – a wordless animated fable about a cat reluctantly making friends with a dog, a ring-tailed lemur, a capybara and a secretary bird in a post-apocalyptic world. There’s a message, but the visuals and the drama are what really grab the senses. It deservedly won an Oscar this year; do not on any account miss the chance to see this film.

Screens as part of the Cultural Foundation’s European Film Festival Abu Dhabi 2025, a week of films all priced at AED 25 (and the all-week pass at AED 150 looks a real bargain). All films that need them have subtitles in English. The films:

23 June 7pm Flow Latvia

24 June 6pm Mountain Boy UAE
24 June 8pm Dangerous Gentlemen Poland

25 June 4pm Bigman Netherlands
25 June 6pm Carmen Malta
25 June 8pm Two to One Germany

26 June 4pm Living Large Czechia
26 June 6pm Mond Austria
26 June 8pm The Musicians France

27 June 4pm Io Sto Bene Italy
27 June 6pm The Trap Bulgaria
27 June 8pm Remember to Blink Lithuania

28 June 4pm Tarrac Ireland
28 June 6pm Four Souls of Coyote Hungary
28 June 8pm UFO Sweden Sweden

29 June 2pm Ramona Spain
29 June 4pm Horia Romania
29 June 6pm Riders Slovenia