A First Farewell
(2021, original release: 2018)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Cheng Cheng Films, 2018
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12553904
LANGUAGE
Uigar
NOTES

Title from title frames

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

Film

In Process Record

Alinaz Rahmati, Isa Yasan, Kalbinur Rahmati

Originally produced by Cheng Cheng Films in 2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In Mandarin

Additional Credits