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Bread Will Walk

Le pain se lève

VIFF Short Forum

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.

Director
Cast

Jay Baruchel

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2025

Language

English

Links
18+
12 min
Animation Horror & Thriller Shorts
National Film Board of Canada

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 headshot

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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