The Farewell starring Awkwafina gets a UK release date

Entertainment Film Distributors has announced that Sundance sensation THE FAREWELL (winner of the Sundance London Audience Favourite Award), written and directed by Lulu Wang (one of Variety’s Directors To Watch 2019) and starring the breakout talent Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Oceans 8), will be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Friday 20^th September.

After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019, Lulu Wang’s semi-autobiographical film THE FAREWELL broke box office records in the U.S. for the best opening per theatre of the year.

In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai (grandma), has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself.

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To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there’s a lot to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she left as a child, her grandmother’s wondrous spirit, and the ties that keep on binding even when so much goes unspoken.

With The Farewell, writer/director Lulu Wang has created a heartfelt celebration of both the way we perform family and the way we live it, masterfully interweaving a gently humorous depiction of the good lie in action with a richly moving story of how family can unite and strengthen us, often in spite of ourselves.

If you haven’t yet seen the trailer for the movie, then feast your eyes on the footage in the video player below:

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THE FAREWELL is released in cinemas nationwide by Entertainment Film Distributors on 20 September 2019.

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