Alchemiya Founder and CEO, Navid Akhtar, will be interviewing one of the authors at the Iqra Book Festival on Saturday, 24th October. The festival starts at 10am and runs to 6.30pm BST You can register for the event here - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eru7J3QbT9GAxQskmDtiRg | Alchemiya

A First Farewell Wang Lina’s experimental debut explores the sensitivity shared by narrative filmmaking and documenting reality, unveiling poetry from the minutiae of Uighurs' life in Xinjiang like none other. Tailing an endearing boy named Isa in Shaya, her heavenly home village surrounded by textured sand dunes and millennia-old trees, she tugs viewers' heartstrings with a story about treasures in his carefree childhood and how they gradually fade away, as love, home, and personal advancement