Far Away Lands (film)

Far Away Lands
FrenchLes Terres lointaines
Directed byFélix Lamarche
Written byFélix Lamarche
Produced byFélix Lamarche
CinematographySamuel de Chavigny
Edited bySophie B. Sylvestre
Music byMimi Allard
Production
company
La Limite Films
Distributed byLes Films du 3 mars
Release date
  • February 27, 2017 (2017-02-27) (RVCQ)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
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.