The movie Raw at the Toronto International Film Festival is causing moviegoers to pass out

THE movie Raw, about a feminist cannibal which is screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, is causing moviegoers to pass out.

Raw a movie screening at the Toronto International Film Festival is causing people to pass out. Picture: Supplied

THE movie Raw, about a feminist cannibal which is screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), is causing moviegoers to pass out.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that paramedics were called to a cinema when the French film became too much for the audience to handle.

TIFF marketing manager Ryan Werner confirmed that the film left some of those watching pass out.

Raw, a movie screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, is about cannibalism. Picture: Supplied

An ambulance had to be called to the scene as the film became too much for a couple patrons.”

Raw, from debutant director Julie Ducournau, follows a vegetarian veterinary student who slowly turns to cannibalism.

Werner claimed that the only other film he has seen generate such a reaction in the festival’s history is Lars Von Trier’s controversial Antichrist in 2009.