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Cargo (2013)

Cargo poster
Directed by
Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke
Genre
horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
Country
Australia
Runtime
7 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 123 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A father struggles to keep his infant daughter safe as they travel through a zombie-infested landscape. He must face impossible choices to protect her.

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What happens

Cargo is a 2013 Australian short film directed by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, written by Ramke, and starring Andy Rodoreda as a father who must protect his young daughter (Ruth Venn) during a zombie apocalypse. It was made for the Tropfest short film festival, where it was a finalist. It went viral after it was uploaded to YouTube, and it was featured on many web sites. By 2018, it had been viewed over 14 million times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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