The Reach (Mathias Taylor)

by Bernd Lautenslager · 6 February 2024

Title: The Reach (2024) (NZL)
Runtime: 43′
Based on the story: The Reach
Director(s): Mathias Taylor (Matty Thomas Taylor)
(Script-)writer(s): Mathias Taylor (Mathias T. Taylor)
Producer(s): Mathias Taylor
Cast: Jos Falanitama, Mike Williams, Benny Marama, Kelly Taylor, Rhys Thomas, Nathan Higgins, Janine Amelia Swainson, Richard Swainson, Matty Thomas Taylor
Additional Crew: Yotam Levy, Katie Trigg

The year she turns ninety-five, Stella starts to see ghosts of her dead friends and loved ones, specifically her late husband Bill. They all tell her to join them in crossing the Reach, an ice bridge that forms over the ocean between her home of Goat Island and the mainland every winter.