WHIPPING ZOMBIE

DUGONG FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2017

A film on the labor and fatigue at the root of the word 'zombie'.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2017
Cinéma du Réel 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • CREOLE
    • Duration
    • 30 mn
    • Writer(s)
    • Yuri ANCARANI
    • Producer(s)
    • Marco ALESSI (Dugong), Simone CIPRIANI (Ethical Fashion Initiative), Chloe MUKAI (Ethical Fashion Initiative)
    • Synopsis
    • In a remote haitian village a dance exists, with slaves and masters, it’s the whipping zombie ritual. On a inducing trance music played by rara bands men whip and fight till they die and reborn in the infinite cycle.

      Kale Zonbi, Whipping Zombie, the title of a unique ritual shot for the first time, taking place in a paradise where it is impossible to forget the horror of the past.