FFFA: Zombi Child

“The kind of lithe and lucid dream that gets its tendrils round your brain stem, so that when all hell finally breaks loose, you can't jolt yourself awake from its grip.”

Australian Premiere

Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret —not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.

Festival Appearances/Awards:

2019 Cannes Film Festival, 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2019 New York Film Festival

Language:

French, Haitian, English (English subtitles)

Content Warnings: 

Graphic violence.

Rating

U18+

Cast

Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat

Director

Bertrand Bonello