Aurora Film Society Presents: The Farewell

General Admission tickets: $10.00

06:30pm Doors

07:00pm Show Time!

All tickets sales are considered a donation to The Aurora Film society and The Fox Valley Music foundation.

About the Film:

The Farewell [2019 / Lulu Wang]

A young Chinese American woman named Billi learns that her Grandmother Nai Nai only has a short time to live. The family decides to all meet in Changchun China for a wedding and spend time with the grandmother. Nai Nai thinks everyone is just coming for the wedding. She does not know of the medical diagnosis and the family is not going to tell her. Billi at first thinks she should be told but is informed that this is a common Chinese tradition. There are many interesting and humorous incidents throughout the movie as Billi comes to terms with her grandmother’s diagnosis and Chinese cultural traditions. Nai Nai is a delightful character based upon the director’s own grandmother.

The Aurora Film Society

Since 2018, the Aurora Film Society (AFS) has been broadening our community’s collective horizons by screening great movies together. For $60 a year, our subscribers are shown 12 carefully selected & curated movies, works that are historically important & groundbreaking, works that provide a window into far-flung cultures, works that are sometimes overlooked or unavailable to most audiences. The AFS puts a special emphasis on showing the sorts of luminous & idiosyncratic stories from beyond the mainstream that people of the Fox Valley area would normally not have a chance to see in a theatrical setting. We screen every third Wednesday of the month at The Venue.
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