An excellent line-up of films, both shorts and features, were presented at the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), which wrapped up yesterday in Canada’s capital city. The award winners were presented on Saturday, September 28, at the National Arts Centre.
The prize-winning feature film was Gints Zilbalodis’s stunning and mystical Flow. The film premiered earlier this year as part of the Un Certain Regard sidebar of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win four awards at Annecy.
The $3.7 million Belgium/France/Latvia co-production is set to open in New York and Los Angeles on November 22, followed by a wider U.S. expansion in December. This latest Ottawa win should help reinforce the fact that Flow is one of the best animated films of 2024 and a real Oscar contender during the upcoming awards season.
The feature film jury, comprised of Neil Hunter (Canada), Dahee Jeong (South Korea), and Thomas Volda (Croatia), offered …