A FIRST FAREWELL
Release Year:
2018
Story:
Wang Lina’s experi mental debut explores the sensitivity shared bynarrative filmmak ing and documenting reality, unveiling po etry fromthe minutiae of Uighurs' life in Xinjiang like none other. Tailing an en dearing boy named Isa in Shaya, her heavenly home vil lage sur-rounded by textured sand dunes and millennia-old trees, she tugsview ers' heartstrings with a story about trea sures in his carefree child-hood and how they gradually fade away, as love, home, and personalad vancement get weighed against an other for this genera tion of mi-nority children, who must bid many farewells to assimilate into the more widely ac knowledged best life.
Wang Lina’s experi mental debut explores the sensitivity shared bynarrative filmmak ing and documenting reality, unveiling po etry fromthe minutiae of Uighurs' life in Xinjiang like none other. Tailing an en dearing boy named Isa in Shaya, her heavenly home vil lage sur-rounded by textured sand dunes and millennia-old trees, she tugsview ers' heartstrings with a story about trea sures in his carefree child-hood and how they gradually fade away, as love, home, and personalad vancement get weighed against an other for this genera tion of mi-nority children, who must bid many farewells to assimilate into the more widely ac knowledged best life.
Casts & Crews:
Wang Lina
Directors
Runtime:
88
minutes
Language:
Reference:
Berlin International Film Festival, Best Film, Generation K Plus
Berlin International Film Festival, Best Film, Generation K Plus
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Casts & Crews
Wang Lina
Director
Story:
Wang Lina’s experi mental debut explores the sensitivity shared bynarrative filmmak ing and documenting reality, unveiling po etry fromthe minutiae of Uighurs' life in Xinjiang like none other.
Tailing an en dearing boy named Isa in Shaya, her heavenly home vil lage sur-rounded by textured sand dunes and millennia-old trees, she tugsview ers' heartstrings with a story about trea sures in his carefree child-hood and how they gradually fade away, as love, home, and personalad vancement get weighed against an other for this genera tion of mi-nority children, who must bid many farewells to assimilate into the more widely ac knowledged best life.