Far Away Lands (film)
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| French | Les Terres lointaines |
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| Directed by | Félix Lamarche |
| Written by | Félix Lamarche |
| Produced by | Félix Lamarche |
| Cinematography | Samuel de Chavigny |
| Edited by | Sophie B. Sylvestre |
| Music by | Mimi Allard |
Production company | La Limite Films |
| Distributed by | Les Films du 3 mars |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English Dutch Tagalog Cebuano |
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.