The Dead - Cinequest 21

Everybody dies. No really.

The world is under some sort of virus that brings back the dead after they have been infected and die. The zombies are classic, slow moving. But they don't need sleep and live people do. Plus, there are so many of them.

We open with a downed engineer in a "hot" zone who's trying to get out. He tries to find a vehicle, gets attacked when fixing it, but gets away.

An African army deserter is trying to find his son. He goes back to his village to find it abandoned except for his dying wife? mother? family member? (it's not really clear) who tells him his son was taken to a survivor's camp. Then she dies. And comes back to life, shuffling after him. He turns and shoots her already dead, but walking corpse. Then he leaves the village.

The engineer and deserter meet on the road. They realize they are better off if they team up. They drive and fight zombies. Meeting survivors who get killed, getting attacked and surviving. Until the truck runs out of gas and they have to walk. Then, they both accidentally fall asleep and the zombies bite the deserter. They both manage to limp away, knowing the deserter will die. He asks the engineer to find his son and gives him an amulet so that his son will know that his father sent him. The deserter asks the engineer to kill him after he dies, so he won't become a zombie. But the engineer can't do it.

The engineer finds the refugee camp, but it is surrounded by zombies and he has to sneak in. He learns that they are low on supplies, ammo and more and more zombies press against the walls every hour. He contacts his military base to find that they are also overrun and there is no one coming to save them. Then the zombies get in and everyone panics.

That's when he finds the deserter's son who recognizes the amulet. The scene ends with them standing against the hoard, alone.

Yup. Everyone dies. Zombies win. Run now.