Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Generation 2019
CHN 2018
by: Wang Lina
Isa Yasan, Musa Yasan
Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Generation 2019
CHN 2018
by: Wang Lina
Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Generation 2019
CHN 2018
by: Wang Lina
Ugulem Sugur, Musa Yasan, Isa Yasan
Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Generation 2019
CHN 2018
by: Wang Lina
Isa Yasan
Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Generation 2019
CHN 2018
by: Wang Lina
Kalbinur Rahmati
Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Generation 2019
CHN 2018
by: Wang Lina
Feb 12, 2019Wang Lina
The film team with the director (fourth from left).
Generation – Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Feb 12, 2019Wang Lina
The director at the premiere.
Generation – Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied
Feb 16, 2019Jury, film team
The director of the film, Wang Lina (middle), celebrating her winning with the International Jury and her team.
Generation – Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied – Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Film
Feb 16, 2019Wang Lina
The director of the winning film.
Generation – Di yi ci de li bie | A First Farewell | Ein erster Abschied – Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Film
‘As long as Isa is in your pictures, you’ll never be apart. You can always be together in your pictures.’
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.
by
Wang Lina
People’s Republic of China 2018
Uighur, Mandarin
86’ · Colour
recommendation: 7 years and up
Isa Yasan (Isa)Kalbinur Rahmati (Kalbinur)Alinaz Rahmati (Kalbinur’s Brother)Musa Yasan (Isa’s Brother)Yasan Kamisu (Isa’s Father)Ugulem Sugur (Isa’s Mother)Tajigul Heilmeier (Kalbinur’s Mother)Rahmati Kuramu (Kalbinur’s Father)Kuramu Kasimu (Kalbinur’s Grandfather)
Born in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in 1987, she graduated with a master’s degree from the Communication University of China in Beijing. Di yi ci de li bie (A First Farewell) is her debut film; it won the Best Asian Future Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Filmography2018 Di yi ci de li bie (A First Farewell)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
Shanghai Eternity Media & Culture
Flash Forward Entertainment