The Lowdown
TIFF’s audience award has a habit of picking Best Picture nominees, and La Bola Negra now has Cannes, Toronto and a full Netflix campaign behind it. A Spanish-language contender this strong makes the international and Best Picture races much more interesting.
Key Takeaways
- La Bola Negra, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, won the People’s Choice Award at TIFF (CBC News).
- The film follows the interconnected lives of three gay men in Spain (CBC News).
- Netflix bought it out of Cannes, where it shared the best director award, and is running a full awards campaign (CBC News).
- It opens in theaters October 16 and begins streaming December 2 (CBC News).
The Story
La Bola Negra won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 20. The audience-voted prize is widely seen as one of the most reliable Academy Awards predictors (CBC News).
Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the film is an epic about the interconnected lives of three gay men in Spain. “Knowing that audiences connected with it and made it their own is the greatest gift we could receive,” the directors said (CBC News).
The film was already a hit at Cannes, where it shared the best director award with Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland. Netflix acquired it there and is giving it the streamer’s longest theatrical release yet: theaters from October 16, streaming from December 2 (CBC News).
Other TIFF winners included Angh for the Platform Award, Sunburn for best Canadian feature, Elsinore for the international People’s Choice award, and Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been for documentary People’s Choice (CBC News).
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