Combined with honors such as the Los Angeles Film Critics prize in animation, Latvia's "Flow" went on to receive a pair of Oscar nods, including best international feature and animated feature ...

“It was a great moment for independent animation because it just showed that there’s this whole other body of work out there,” says Elliot. “I was so thrilled that Flow won and Gints, like myself, ...

Having animals walking and talking like people in animation is a fairly common occurrence, but Flow director Gints Zilbalodis wanted to focus on immersing the viewer in a fully animal perspective ...

Baltic animation makes the most of ‘Flow’s success, as 'Karmic Knot,' 'Adult Bedtime Stories,' 'Born in the Jungle' loom on the horizon.

Another indie animation film that made it into the running this year, Memoir of a Snail is a melancholic adult stop-motion animation of a snail hoarding woman named Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook).

Like Flow, it has no dialogue, as the story is told only through the animation and music. Away follows a lone boy trekking across a mysterious landscape, at first on foot and then on a motorcycle.