A First Farewell 2018
Di yi ci de li bie (original title)
1h 26m | Drama | Release date: July 20, 2020 (China)
Storyline:
Isa Yasan is a Muslim boy from the countryside in Xinjiang, China. His mother was left deaf and mute from meningitis, and she frequently wanders away from home. Isa loves his mother deeply, and is torn among taking care of her, going to school and doing farm work. He is friends with a lively little girl named Kalbinur. They are taking care of an adorable lamb together. Kalbinur’s grades in her Uyghur are good, but her Chinese scores are terrible. Since Chinese is the national language, her mother wants to move to the city and find temporary work so Kalbinur can go to a Chinese school. Her father doesn’t agree to the plan, and the two argue a lot. That winter, Isa’s father decides to send Isa’s mother to a nursing home, and Kalbinur’s family makes plans to leave the village. Isa reads a story called “A First Farewell” in school, and although he does not fully understand the idea of farewell, he will soon experience it himself.
User review:
The lack of images in this place is as significant as the significance of this film. Boys don’t leave their mothers, girls don’t leave their hometowns, and lambs don’t leave their masters. On one side is a soft and beautiful garden, and on the other is a serious and bitter campus. The strong contrast between the two spaces is there. Even if nothing is said, it means that it naturally emerges. Growth, recognition, modernization… The director is also a dancer dancing on the tip of the knife, both sharp and elegant.
Director: Lina Wang
Writer: Lina Wang
Stars: Tajigul Heilmeier, Yasan Kamisu, Kuramu Kasimu
Country of origin: China
Languages: Uighur, Mandarin
Also known as: A First Farewell
Filming locations: Xinjiang, China
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 4.47 GiB
Duration : 1 h 27 min
Overall bit rate : 7 331 kb/s
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I thought Muslim boys were circumcised?
Check out the short film: Supot 2016
Each country’s Muslims have it’s own customs — many use the circumcision ritual as a passage into manhood and is performed at or right before puberty… and some kids are circumcised at birth like most Jews and Christians.
We can presume that the boy has yet to be circumcised, or the producers screwed up with a continuity error…. or they just didn’t care.