This Mountain Life (2019)

Directed by

Grant Baldwin

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers several people living in the mountains of British Columbia. It follows a mother and daughter on a long trek, a couple who have lived off the grid for decades, avalanche survivors, and nuns in an isolated convent.

awe-inspiringpeacefulquietcontemplativevisually stunningslow-pacedintimategrounded

What happens

This Mountain Life is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Grant Baldwin and released in 2018. The film centres on various residents of the Canadian province of British Columbia and their relationships with the province's mountain landscape, including a mother and daughter undertaking a 2,300 kilometre trek through the Coast Mountains, a married couple who have lived off the grid in the mountains for over 50 years, a pair of avalanche survivors and a group of Roman Catholic nuns living at an isolated nunnery in the Garibaldi Ranges. The film had its theatrical premiere at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival. The film won Best Visual Film at the 2018 Kendal Mountain Festival, and later received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best British Columbia Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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