4 Academy Award® Nominations for FLOW, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, and SUGARCANE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Films We Like is thrilled to announce 4 Academy Award® nominations for FLOW, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, and SUGARCANE at the 97th Academy Awards®, which will take place on March 2, 2025.
“We’re thrilled to see these extraordinary films receive the recognition they well deserve,” says Ron Mann, co-founder of Films We Like, the film's distributor.
FLOW, a Latvian animated feature by Gints Zilbalodis, has been nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best International Feature Film (Latvia). Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, it has won over 50 awards, and numerous Best Animated Film awards such as the European Film Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics Circle and most notably a historic win at the Golden Globes as the first Latvian film to do so.
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community.
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SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT, Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez’s exciting and novel approach to history and music, has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. The “rhythmic” film is one of the most awarded documentaries of the year, having won Best Editing and Best Writing at the prestigious International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards, as well as Outstanding Achievement in Editing and Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design at the Cinema Eye Honors Awards.
Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.
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SUGARCANE, a tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film. The debut feature documentary from first-time director and TIME100 Next honoree Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emmy®- and Peabody-nominated investigative journalist, director, producer and cinematographer Emily Kassie, Sugarcane is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse endured by children at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, Sugarcane illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.
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The full list of Films We Like’s nominations at the 97th Academy Awards® are as follows.
Best Animated Feature
Flow
Best Documentary Feature Film
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Best International Feature Film
Flow
Flow and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat are currently in theatres. Sugarcane is now streaming worldwide. For more information about where to watch these films, visit https://filmswelike.com or follow us on social media at X, Facebook (Meta), and Instagram.
About Films We Like
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Recent releases include Flow, All We Imagine as Light and Academy Award winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist.
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