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Bread Will Walk

Alex Boya
2025 | 11 min

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The planet is starving, and The Mill has the answer: miracle bread. The catch? It turns anyone who eats it into a walking loaf. As a devoted sister races to save her afflicted brother from a ravenous mob, the streets twist, reason crumbles and hunger takes over. A frenetic fever dream of hand-drawn animation, body horror and dark humour, featuring Canadian actor Jay Baruchel, Bread Will Walk is Montreal-based filmmaker Alex Boya’s surrealist satire about overconsumption, corporate greed and propaganda, in a Hansel-and-Gretel-inspired fable that is chilling to the bone. Created as a continuous, ever-morphing shot, the film combines more than 4,000 hand-drawn frames with digital collage, with Baruchel voicing every character. 

Selected for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Awards and distinctions

  • Winner International Experimental Short
    Animation Festival, Los Angeles
    2025
  • Best Short with Environmental Themes (ex aequo with REROOTED and TRASH)
    VIEW Conference, Torino
    2025
  • DNP Award
    New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Sapporo
    2025