A beautiful, touching story of three Turkic Uyghur children with picturesque views in one of the small rural villages in Xinjiang, autonomous region of China.
As the director Lina Wang, also of Uyghur origin, expressed, A First Farewell is mainly based on the real life of Isa Yasan, who she met at a local school in Xinjiang.
Apparently, impressed and touched by the boy's life and love for his mother, who is deaf and suffers from mental illness, Wang decided to adapt it to film, and the boy made her realize not to use an adult's thinking to treat the boy's story as a tragedy.
In one of the touching moments, when a teacher asks about the dreams of Isa for the future, he answers that he hopes to become a doctor so he can cure his mother's illness and afford to buy a toy for himself. Wang also says that she felt particularly touched when she saw the boy feeding a little orphaned lamb he had adopted and saying "you are the same as me; Mom cannot give us much love, but we should love mom".
A must watch feature movie with a touch of documentary, reflecting the lives, traditions and dreams of ethnic Uyghur people in China...
As the director Lina Wang, also of Uyghur origin, expressed, A First Farewell is mainly based on the real life of Isa Yasan, who she met at a local school in Xinjiang.
Apparently, impressed and touched by the boy's life and love for his mother, who is deaf and suffers from mental illness, Wang decided to adapt it to film, and the boy made her realize not to use an adult's thinking to treat the boy's story as a tragedy.
In one of the touching moments, when a teacher asks about the dreams of Isa for the future, he answers that he hopes to become a doctor so he can cure his mother's illness and afford to buy a toy for himself. Wang also says that she felt particularly touched when she saw the boy feeding a little orphaned lamb he had adopted and saying "you are the same as me; Mom cannot give us much love, but we should love mom".
A must watch feature movie with a touch of documentary, reflecting the lives, traditions and dreams of ethnic Uyghur people in China...