Scene from the film Weiyena - The Long March Home
Scene from the film Weiyena - The Long March Home
Scene from the film Weiyena - The Long March Home
Scene from the film Weiyena - The Long March Home
Scene from the film Weiyena - The Long March Home

Weiyena - The Long March Home

Direction
Year 
2020
Country
  • Austria
Duration
96min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

Two family histories, one century and two metropolises merge in one person: Weina Zhao, whose parents called her ‘Vienna’ – Wéiyěnà – because they emigrated to Austria. Her journey into the history of China leads to the Cultural-Revolution, modern China and tackles the great issues of the 21st century: migration, identity and the search for one‘s past.

Weina Zhao lives in Vienna, her parents even named her after this city, but she has always been drawn to China and her family’s past, where the opposing realities of 20th century life came together. While her mother’s side were filmmakers in glamorous 1930s Shanghai, her father’s side were poor peasants in the North. The biographies of the two families are marked by China’s development, from Mao’s Long March to the tragedies of the Cultural Revolution, to its present. The film is a unique testimony to this part of the intellectual history of the 20th century.

Weina’s journey begins as a timid approach to her family, but very soon she encounters traumatic memories – from the Japanese occupation to cruel imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. She opens up unhealed wounds and has to face her own process of coming to terms with the past and her uprooted identity.

Details

  • Original title
    Weiyena - The Long March Home
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Weina Zhao
  • DOP
    Judith Benedikt
  • Editing
    Birgit Foerster
  • Music
    Andreas Hamza
  • Duration
    96 min (91+ min.)
  • Year
    2020
  • Country
    • Austria
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Distribution
  • Festivals
    • Solidarity Festival Israel
    • DOK.fest München
    • Filmfestival Freistadt
    • Kasseler Dokfest
  • Awards
    • Winner VIKTOR DOK.deutsch - DOK.fest München
    • Winner Documentary film award of the city of Freistadt - Filmfestival Freistadt
    • Grand Prize, TIDF International Competition, 2022

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