Latvia made a splash at the 2025 Oscars by winning the best animated feature award for Flow . The small Baltic country’s submission for the 2026 best international feature film Oscar is, again, an animated movie. But Dog of God , from director brothers Lauris and Raitis Abele, is very, very different from Flow , including being a genre film and being much more graphic and provocative.

While director and producer Gints Zilbalodis ‘ Flow told the dialogue-free story of a solitary cat’s emotional journey, Dog of God is set in the 17th century and focuses on a woman accused of witchcraft and how her trial uncovers the existence of a werewolf. Rooted in Latvian folklore, it explores such themes as tribalism, the role of power elites, religion, and dogmatic thinking

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