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Far Beyond the Pasturelands

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Far Beyond the Pasturelands
FrenchAu-delà des hautes vallées
Directed byMaude Plante-Husaruk
Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis
Written byMaude Plante-Husaruk
Produced byClotilde Vatrinet
CinematographyMaude Plante-Husaruk
Edited byMaude Plante-Husaruk
Music byMaxime Lacoste-Lebuis
Distributed byLes Films du 3 Mars
Release date
  • November 2021 (2021-11) (RIDM)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Far Beyond the Pasturelands (French: Au-delà des hautes vallées) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis and released in 2021.[1] The film centres on a small rural village in Nepal, whose residents support themselves by foraging for yarsagumba, a rare but highly valuable fungus that grows out of the decomposing bodies of dead caterpillars in Nepal and Tibet.[2]

The film highlights both the economic exploitation of the villagers, who are paid just a few dollars for their harvest even though the dealer can sell it for over $18,000 per kilogram at market, and the unsustainable overharvesting that threatens to destroy the entire supply chain.[3]

The film premiered at the 2021 Montreal International Documentary Festival,[4] before going into wider commercial release in 2022.[5]

Awards

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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Prix Iris December 10, 2023 Best Cinematography in a Documentary Maude Plante-Husaruk Nominated [6]
Best Original Music in a Documentary Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis Nominated
Best Sound in a Documentary Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis, Eric Shaw, Jean Paul Vialard Nominated

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