When a zombie plague is unwittingly unleashed on a small farming town, murder and mayhem ensue in Finnish filmmaker Pekka Ollula ’s directorial debut “Pigtown,” which won the top prize among Nordic projects this week at Finnish Film Affair , the industry event running parallel to the Helsinki Intl. Film Festival – Love & Anarchy.

Billed by the director as a “rural romantic zombie comedy,” “Pigtown” follows Iida, a long-time animal rights activist, who wants to turn over a new leaf and stop breaking into farms. Her radical friend Anja, however, goes too far, poisoning pig feed with a strange black liquid that gradually turns the pigs into bloodthirsty zombies. When an unlucky farmhand gets bitten, the disease spreads to humans.

Meanwhile, Sami, a city boy ashamed of his roots, arrive

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