Director of ‘Flow’ Gints Zilbalodis, celebrated the Oscar alongside Walter Salles, filmmaker behind the Brazilian movie ‘I’m still here’
Oscar 2025 Best Animation Category Winner, Latvia’s animation, “Flow” had the award celebrated by the director GINTES ZILBALODIS next to the Brazilian filmmakerWalter Salles“I’m still here”, which also won the biggest film awards as best foreign film.
The celebration was shared by a photo on Instagram de Zilbalodiswhere he poses next to Salles as they both hold their golden statuettes. In the caption, the Latto director included the acronyms of Latvia and Brazil separated by a red heart; look:
The image is full of representativeness, as “Flow” has become a cultural icon of Latvia by becoming the country’s first feature film to win an Oscar, “I’m still here” has become historic because it is also the first movie to win a golden statuette for Brazil.
In the award, the Brazilian film that adapts the eponymous book of MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA To tell the story of the Paiva family during the military dictatorship by accompanying matriarch Eunice (Fernanda Torres) who needs to raise her children while trying to understand her husband’s death, she still competed for best actress and best film categories.
Animation without dialogues, which follows a black cat that gives up its lonely nature after losing its home during a flood and finding shelter on a boat where other species try to survive, also played as the best international film. The two titles are playing in theaters throughout Brazil.
Beyond the celebration with Salles, Zilbalodis He also celebrated with the “Flow” team in a restaurant on an American fast food chain called In-Out-custom that comes from other awards such as the Golden Globe; Remember:
Source: Recreio
