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Black Bread by Augustí Villaronga broke several records and counts to the third most awarded film in the history of the Goyas. Besides the coveted Goya award for Best Movie, the film is also the first Catalan movie which Spain submits for an Oscar nomination in the Category Best Foreign Language.  

Black Bread is set in the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the 1940’s where a local man is accused of murder and his son sets out to find the truth. The eleven-year-old Andreu stumbles upon a crushed wagon in the underbrush at the foot of a high cliff and witnesses the dying moments of the man and boy inside. When the police suspect Andreu’s father of foul play he goes into hiding and Andreu is sent to live with relatives. There, the frightened boy starts to create a fantasy life but is forced to confront a world of adult deception, festering hatreds and the war’s monstrous consequences.  

Agustí Villaronga is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor, who was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía (Spanish National Film Award) in 2011. He has received numerous awards such as: Annual Awards of the “Goya” Academy, Fotogramas Magazine Silver Awards, Gaudí Awards and Sant Jordi Film Awards.