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This Mountain Life (2019)

This Mountain Life poster
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
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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.

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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)

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