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Canada’s Top Ten: The Ravenous (Les affamés)

Thu, Feb 1 / 9 pm
Fri, Feb 2 / 9:15 pm
Directed by Robin Aubert
2017, Canada, 100 min
French with English subtitles

Robin Aubert’s chilling new zombie film is sweeping up awards at festivals across the country – Best Canadian Feature at TIFF 2017, People’s Choice Award at the 2017 Montréal Festival of New Cinema and Best FX Award at the 2017 Nocturna Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival. In the remote Quebec countryside, all is not well. A plague has infected the land, affecting almost all the residents of a small village. The survivors have to navigate their new existence while dealing with those infected with an appetite for flesh.

Award Winner –  Toronto International Film Festival Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature 2017 

Now in its 17th year Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival™ highlights the best features, shorts and student shorts from across the country. The breadth of programming selected by filmmakers, programmers, critics and industry professionals represents the creative strength of the country’s best cinema.

Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 and the Toronto International Film Festival.

           

Reviews

Robin Aubert breathes fresh life into stale tropes. Setting his apocalypse in the remote Quebec countryside, Aubert has made a zombie movie that revels in its genre trappings. Aubert also has a wicked sense of humour and a knack for the surreal.
- Mark Hanson, Toronto Film Scene
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