The planet is starving and people resort to eating bread, which turns them into bread themselves. A sister tries to save her bread-brother as he is chased by a hungry mob.
Jay Baruchel
Canada
2025
English
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Robert McLaughlin, Christine Noël
Producer
Jelena Popović
Screenwriter
Alex Boya
ANIM
Alex Boya
Editor
Luca Di Gioacchino
Original Music
Martin Floyd Cesar
Alex Boya
Born in Bulgaria, Alex Boya is a Montreal-based animator and filmmaker known for his surreal, hand-drawn storytelling. At the National Film Board of Canada, he coined the term “genomic animation,” a technique that distorts biological forms to explore identity and transformation. His film Turbine (2018) established his Kafkaesque vision. With Bread Will Walk, Boya continues to examine dystopian absurdity, crafting worlds where the grotesque and poetic intersect, and questioning the boundaries between human, object and the logic that binds them.
Photo by Stephan Ballard
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