TRIZOMBIE: Down Syndrome in the Apocalypse

Film, Fantastic FestBelgian Film Shows People with Down Syndrome Can Survive

Director Bob Colaers has created a conversation piece in the new Belgian film TRIZOMBIE (2024), premiering at Fantastic Fest this week in Austin, Texas. The film follows a group of people with Down Syndrome as they survive a zombie apocalypse where only people with trisomy 21, an extra twenty-first chromosome, are immune to the virus.

The film was originally a TV miniseries and has been cut together into a film with surpr...