FAR AWAY LANDS by Félix Lamarche
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1h 38m
98 minutes - English Subtitles - 2017 - Québec, Canada
Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois RCVQ (Montréal 2017) - PIERRE ET YOLANDE PERRAULT PRIZE
DOXA (Vancouver 2017)
Durban International Film Festival (South Africa 2017)
Les Percéides (Percé, Canada 2017)
FAR AWAY LANDS is a voyage to the heart of the blue desert, a journey where the vast and the intimate stands along. On a cargo ship, a crew of eight, mostly young Dutch and Filipinos, forms an improbable community, tossed by the constant motion of goods and torn between a search for freedom and the nostalgia of exile. Rarely have we taken a closer look at those modern-day sailors, often eclipsed by the overwhelming presence of both the machines and the sea. Set between everyday life and fleeting reveries, this film will lead us on the wandering path, through the existence and experience of these men, striding across the limits of our world. Seeing the lands in the far distance, like a sailor’s vaporous dream, the desire for adventure slowly flirts with melancholy.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED by Félix Lamarche
IMAGE Samuel de Chavigny
EDITING Sophie B Sylvestre
SOUND DESIGN Sylvain Bellemare
MIX Bernard Gariépy Strobl
MUSIC Mimi Allard, Jérôme Boivin, Félix Lamarche
SOUND RECORDING Félix Lamarche
PRODUCED by Félix Lamarche (La limite Films Inc.)
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