Berlinale Kplus Competition film A FIRST FAREWELL, the rarely seen Uyghur speaking Children film from Xinjiang, China, a debut film by the homegrown female director Lina WANG.
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A FIRST FAREWELL
Drama/Youth ︱ China ︱ 2018 ︱ 86 minutes ︱ Uyghur/Mandarin
Director: WANG Lina
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The first international Uyghur film from Xinjiang, China by a homegrown female director.
The directorial debut from Xinjiang’s Lina Wang is a poem to her hometown, portraying a Muslim farm boy’s relationship with his deaf-mute mother, his friendship with his sweetheart girl, and his parting from them.
"That Wang wanted to craft a cinematic tribute to her hometown is especially evident in A First Farewell’s wide, crisp, eye-catching visuals." － Screen
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Berlinale Festival Screening
Feb 12 09:30 @ Zoo Palast 1
Feb 13 12:30 @ Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
Feb 14 10:00 @ Zoo Palast 2
Feb 17 11:00 @ CinemaxX 1
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SYNOPSIS
Deep in northwestern China, surrounded by cotton fields and desert, lies the Uyghur village that Isa calls home. When he is not at school or working on his parents‘ farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends – until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another. With Isa’s mother‘s illness placing an increasing burden on the family, his father considers putting her in a care home, far away from the village. Isa‘s best friend Kalbinur is getting bad grades, and is about to be sent to a faraway Chinese school. And then the little lamb, which the two children had been looking after with devotion ever since it was born, disappears. Captured in naturalistic imagery, winter closes in on Isa‘s world.
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