A FIRST FAREWELL

第一次的离别

By Wang LINA

DAX PICTURES - as PROD

Female director - Completed 2018

Wang Lina’s experimental debut explores the sensitivity shared by narrative filmmaking and documenting reality, unveiling poetry from the minutiae of Uighurs' life in Xinjiang like none other.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 2018
Generation Kplus Best Film
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Female director, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Wang LINA
    • Writer(s)
    • Lina WANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Qingzeng CAI, Hui LIU, Xiaoyu QIN, Zihang ZHOU
    • Synopsis
    • Wang Lina’s experimental debut explores the sensitivity shared by narrative filmmaking and documenting reality, unveiling poetry from the minutiae of Uighurs' life in Xinjiang like none other. Tailing an endearing boy named Isa in Shaya, her heavenly home village surrounded by textured sand dunes and millennia-old trees, she tugs viewers' heartstrings with a story about treasures in his carefree childhood and how they gradually fade away, as love, home, and personal advancement get weighed against another for this generation of minority children, who must bid many farewells to assimilate into the more widely acknowledged best life.