The Long Walk
Bor mi vanh chark
For fifty years, a man has been walking the dusty path through the woods between his isolated farm and the nearby village, accompanied by a taciturn ghost. As a teenager he witnessed her death, and she has been connected to him ever since. When he discovers that the spirit is able to take him back to the past, he returns to his youth to rid himself of the millstone around his neck: his mother’s death from tuberculosis, which he had to watch helplessly as a child.
In her third feature film, Laotian filmmaker Mattie Do creates an ingenious mix of lo-fi science fiction and melancholy ghost story. From his adult life in the near future, sketched in small gestures, the old man jumps back to his youth, in our present. But every action he takes has unexpected consequences. The more he interferes with the fabric of time, the more he becomes caught up in loose ends.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Laos, Singapore, Spain
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 116'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
