THE FIRST SHOT – Q&A with director Yan Cheng

Three young chinese, three distant and diverse existences caught in a same tension: the search for one’s own identity and the sense of “being” in a present of continuous transformation. All of them was born in China after 1989, the end of all the revolutions. On their shoulders lies a contradictory history and the suffering of the continuous transformation, from the fall of the imperial to the modern era, that began from the First Shot, back in 10.10.1911.