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Hometown pride in Riga after 'Flow' wins Latvia's first Oscar

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The Oscar statuette is the latest source of hometown pride for the Baltic country of nearly 1.9 million people.

More than 320,000 people have watched it in theaters across Latvia , an audience larger than any other film screened in the country in the last 30 years .

The film is a peaceful, yet post-apocalyptic, fable about a black cat, dog, capybara, ring-tailed lemur and secretary bird.