The ICFF “Manaki Brothers” in cooperation with the MCF distribution company organize two special screenings of “Flow” – this year’s Academy Award winner for best animated feature, within the framework of the project activities of the Adriatic Festival Network.

The audience will have the chance to see the Oscar-winner at 6 pm on Thursday (29.05.2025) at the Manaki Cinema in Bitola and at 6 pm on Saturday (31.05.2025) at the Cinematheque of Macedonia in Skopje.

The film had two academy-award nominations (for Best International Feature and Best Animation), and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, followed by the European Film Academy Award and the Golden Globe.

The award-winning streak continued with the Adriatic Festival Network, where Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis, won the Adriatic Audience Award for Best Film. It was voted winner by the viewers from all the member festivals of the network: the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Herceg Novi Film Festival (Montenegro), the Ljubljana International Film Festival (Slovenia), the Auteur Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia), the Zagreb Film Festival (Croatia) and Brakja Manaki (North Macedonia), which was a testament to its broad acclaim and influence in the region, while the award itself was formally presented at the 30th edition of the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival.

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.  This animation was entirely rendered in the free (open-source) software Blender and does not contain any dialogue.

The Adriatic Festival Network is an initiative that brings together leading film festivals from the region and focuses on promoting and showcasing high quality cinema to broader audiences. The network is supported by the MEDIA sub-programme of the Creative Europe Programme.