La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people's choice award
The queer period drama wins Oscar-predicting award, being named the most popular audience film at the festival
TL;DR
- La Bola Negra, a Spanish queer drama, won the people's choice award at the Toronto film festival.
- The film, set in 1932, 1937, and 2017, follows the lives of interconnected gay men.
- Netflix acquired the film's rights after its premiere at the Cannes film festival.
- The people's choice award at Toronto is often a predictor of Oscar success.
- This is the first foreign language winner of the award since 2011.