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A small black cat on a floating raft watched by a capybara and a lemur at dusk.

Flow: Zilbalodis and the Wordless Feature

Gints Zilbalodis made a dialogue-free animated feature in Blender with a team of a dozen, won the Oscar, and put the Latvian film industry on the global animation map. The patient argument is that the form, not the novelty, is the achievement.

Priya Nair·4 Sep·6 min

A rain-slicked Bombay street at night with reflections of distant neon.

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All We Imagine as Light: Kapadia's Bombay Nocturne

Payal Kapadia's Cannes Grand Prix winner was received, on its US release, as the decade's strongest import from Indian indie cinema. The re-reading is that the film is even stranger, and more formally considered, than the initial reception allowed.

Lena Ashworth·18 Jul·6 min