A stretch of rural Quebec goes quiet in a way that feels wrong long before anything is explained in Les Affamés, the Canadian survival drama directed by Robin Aubert.
What is Ravenous about?
The story stays close to a handful of villagers who wake up to find their neighbours changed: bodies breaking down, familiar faces turning on the people who raised them. Rather than explaining the outbreak, the film follows the ones still themselves as they abandon their homes for the tree line, moving in small groups and trying to work out who else has escaped. Search parties form and scatter. Signals get left behind for strangers who might be looking too. The film keeps its focus on ordinary decisions made under pressure — who to trust, when to run, what to carry — instead of on the mechanics of the outbreak itself.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Marc-André Grondin and Monia Chokri, with Charlotte St-Martin, Micheline Lanctôt, Marie-Ginette Guay, Brigitte Poupart, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier and Luc Proulx rounding out the group of villagers at the centre of the film. The cast plays the material with a grounded, unglamorous physicality that suits a story about people who never wanted to be resourceful under this kind of pressure.
Context & significance
Les Affamés sits across drama, horror and science fiction rather than settling into one lane, and that mix is part of what set it apart from other genre releases of 2017. Quebec's rural landscape does a lot of the film's storytelling — wide fields, empty barns, thick forest edges — standing in for a world that has emptied out almost overnight. The Canadian setting and dialogue give the film a texture that is distinct from the American genre films it gets compared to.
Watching Ravenous on Ktime
Les Affamés streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for viewers who prefer to watch in Farsi as well as those following the original French dialogue. The film's page is free to browse without an account; watching it requires signing in with a free K-Time login, with no separate purchase involved. The rest of the site, including search and recommendations, is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora audience.