Les terres lointaines (2017)

Directed by

Félix Lamarche

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian documentary that follows the crew of a cargo ship for two months. It focuses on the contrast between the sailors' wish for freedom at sea and their longing for the security of a home.

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What happens

Far Away Lands (French: Les Terres lointaines) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Félix Lamarche and released in 2017. The film takes place over the course of two months aboard a cargo ship crewed by a mix of Dutch and Filipino sailors, centring on the contrast between their conflicting desires for the freedom of being out on the ocean and the security of having a stable home. The film premiered at the 2017 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. Louis-Paul Rioux of Le Devoir compared the film to Félix Dufour-Laperrière's 2014 documentary Transatlantic (Transatlantiques), noting that a key distinction between the two was that Dufour-Laperrière's film was more abstract and poetic, while Lamarche's was more centred on the emotional lives of the sailors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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