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Woman Walking

As the mother walks on, father and daughter must find their own path toward becoming some kind of family.

synopsis

On a remote farm, a man lives with his wife and their nine-year-old daughter. One morning, everything changes: the wife begins walking aimlessly through the fields outside their house, silent and expressionless. She never stops, no matter what they do. The doctors are clueless, and soon the strange phenomenon attracts the attention of outsiders and the media. Left alone with a child to care for and a wife who is both present and absent, the man struggles to hold the family together. This becomes even more difficult when the revelation of a long-kept secret shatters the daughter’s trust. He is not the biological father, a fact that has gnawed at his self-esteem for years, convincing him that he is not good enough for the role. Now father and daughter are forced to figure things out themselves. Family is complicated.

Director’statement

I grew up in a non-traditional family. My brother and our non-biological mother have not been on speaking terms for years. When we grew up, he started rejecting her and called her Not-mom. They have always struggled to connect. Is it because they are not of the same genes? Or maybe it’s because she never dared truly claiming the role of being his mother? It makes me sad because it is tearing our family apart. And I am painfully aware that I cannot fix their broken relationship, I am standing there as a passive bystander, with questions unanswered. This idea has grown organically since film school and feels like the essence of what defines a Kerren Lumer-Klabbers film. From the themes to the humour and the absurdity. Simply put, it’s a film I would want to watch myself.

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