Flow

There was no better underdog story this awards season than Flow. The independent film from Latvia went up against studio releases like Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot and took home the Best Animated Film Oscar.

The dialogue-free adventure follows a solitary black cat as it becomes caught up in a devastating flood. As the water level rises, the feline jumps onto a boat commandeered by a capybara.

They are soon joined by more animals with distinctively different personalities – there’s the energetic and boisterous Golden Retriever, a lemur who is very possessive of its belongings, and a mysterious large bird – and they are competing for space and resources.

The cat prefers to live alone and the crowded boat is not ideal, but it has to learn how to get along with the others in order for them all to survive the environmental crisis.

This is a simple but poignant film that tells a universal and relevant message about...