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La Bola Negra has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, is an epic that spans the interconnected lives of three gay men in Spain. TIFF announced its suite of festival awards on Sunday.
Other big winners include Angh, which nabbed the Platform Award, a jury prize that comes with a $20,000 purse.
The film from director Theja Rio is about the last surviving chief of a Nagaland village on the Indo-Burma border.
For the first time this year, the Platform Award offers a direct route to the Best International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards.
The Academy previously only accepted one submission from each country for that category, but this year it expanded its criteria to consider winners of qualifying awards at international film festivals.
The Platform Award is one of six such prizes, but other eligibility criteria still apply, including that at least half of the film must be in a language other than English.
Because Angh is mostly in Konyak, it qualifies for best international feature contention.
More to come