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57th edition May 14-24, 2025

Bread Will Walk

Le pain se lève

Alex BOYA

Quinzaine 2025 | Short film | 11 min | Canada |
World premiere

A devoted sister flees with her brother, a benevolent, bread-turned zombie. A mob pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason dissolves, hunger reigns. Can love defy appetite?

Artistic & technical sheet

Contacts

With

Jay Baruchel (voice)

Screenplay
Alex Boya
Sound
Olivier Calvert
Music
Martin Floyd Cesar
Photography
Animation: Alex Boya
Editing
Alex Boya
Production

Office national du film du Canada (Canada)
Jelena Popović
j.popovic@nfb.ca
www.onf.ca 

Foreign sales

Office national du film du Canada (Canada)
festivals@nfb.ca 
www.onf.ca  

© Stephan Ballard

Born in Bulgaria, Alex Boya is a Montreal-based animator and filmmaker known for his surreal, hand-drawn storytelling. He coined the term “genomic animation”, a technique that distorts biological forms to explore identity and transformation. His film Turbine established his Kafkaesque vision. With Bread Will Walk, Boya continues to examine dystopian absurdity, crafting worlds where the grotesque and poetic intersect.