Key Facts

• La Bola Negra is a Spanish queer drama set in 1932, 1937, and 2017.
• The film won the people’s choice award at the Toronto Film Festival.
• It premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Netflix bought the rights after a bidding war and will release it later in the year.
• This is the first foreign language film to win this Toronto award since 2011.
• Past winners of this award have often gone on to win Oscars.
• Directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi expressed gratitude for the award.
• Other notable films at the festival included runners-up I Play Rocky and Being Heumann.