Zombi Child

A man in 1962 Haiti is brought back from the dead only to be condemned to the living hell of the sugarcane fields, his body made into something between slave and specter by ritual and cruelty. That original wound of colonial violence and sorcery reverberates decades later, its myths and memories threaded into the lives of a new generation.

Fifty-five years on, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school in Paris, a Haitian teenager carries that legacy into a world of privilege and secrecy, and the old stories refuse to stay buried. Blending social realism with eerie, uncanny moments, the film traces how history, identity, and desire collide—asking who gets to tell and profit from a culture’s pain while conjuring a haunting portrait of postcolonial memory.