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The third feature film from director Mattie Do, The Long Walk is a haunting tale of memory, fear and loss that addresses the cyclical nature of trauma.

In rural Laos, a middle-aged man walks down a long, dusty road accompanied by an enigmatic young woman. As the man stops to replenish a nearby shrine, he reveals a tattoo-like interface on his arm. As a futuristic jet plane soars above him into the haze a distant metropolis, it is quickly revealed that the story’s origin is situated in a future not yet realised.

Concurrently, a young boy discovers an injured young woman amongst a cavern of roadside flora who has been left to die. It is quickly apparent that this is the same young woman that accompanies the middle-aged man many years in the future, unveiling the beginnings of a transtemporal ghost story.

With a narrative structure that plays into the complexities of time (and the inevitable consequences that come with an interference with it), Do’s intimate and deliberate filmmaking shapes a genre-defying story of family, suffering and time.

Ages 18+ | Strong themes, violence, injury detail and occasional coarse language