Ravenous
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Winner of 8 awards at the 2018 Gala Québec Cinéma, including Best Film and Best Director.
In an isolated village in western Quebec, the situation has changed radically. Residents are unrecognizable: their bodies are decomposing, and some are turning into murderers preying on their loved ones. A few survivors are hiding in the woods, desperately searching for others spared from this plague. Their aim is to form a group of survivors, united in the hope of finding others who share the same fate.
Robin Aubert
Robin Aubert is a Quebec actor, director, screenwriter and poet. From 1995 to 1996, Robin Aubert appeared in two television series and two films. He then starred in filmmaker André Forcier's feature film La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge, and went on to win the Course destination monde (1997-1998), organized by SRC television. He played the lead role in the TV series Temps dur (2004), then became writer-director of three feature films, released between 2005 and 2010: Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés, À quelle heure le train pour nulle part and À l'origine d'un cri. In 2016, he produced, directed and starred in the film Tuktuq, which was not released until 2017. He then directed the film Les affamés, which won the Prix Iris for best direction in 2018.
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