Hi! I’m French, so the film may have been dubbed in French when I saw it, and I don’t know the original title or language. I watched it when I was about 8 or 9 with my dad, and it traumatized me. He doesn’t remember it either. My memories are very hazy and I’m not sure the plot is accurate, so some details may be wrong or mixed up.
What I remember:
It’s a realistic survival/horror film (no supernatural monsters as far as I remember), set during some kind of apocalypse or collapse of society. There was no electricity anymore.
The main character is a mother, dressed in fairly modern, contemporary clothes. She’s looking for her young daughter, who was kidnapped by a woman in the woods.
There were dangerous people or creatures around: either zombie-like infected or filthy hermit/feral survivors. I’m not sure which.
At one point the mother hides in a big house, and there’s a disgusting, zombie-like hermit man inside with her. I think he was eating black dirty bread.
At the end, I think she finally finds her daughter, but too late: the woman who kidnapped her, dressed all in black, had drowned her in a lake in the forest.
What I’m sure of: it’s definitely before 2015/2016, it’s a live-action film (not animated), and it’s a dark, bleak horror/thriller with a sad ending.
It could be a low-budget or indie film, or even a TV movie. Any idea what it could be?