Weiyena – Ein Heimatfilm
Documentary Film, AT 2020, Farbe, 96 min., 11.06. OmdU/12.06. OmeU
Diagonale 2021

Director: Weina Zhao, Judith Benedikt
Script: Weina Zhao
Cast: Zhao Tiewang, Huang Zimin, Liu Shuzhen, Zhao Shimin, Huang Minghua, Ying Ping
Camera: Judith Benedikt
Editor: Birgit Foerster
Location Sound: Andreas Hamza
Music: Andreas Hamza
Sounddesign: Bernhard Köper (Soundfeiler)
Additional Credits: Dramaturgische Beratung: Andrea Ernst, Andreas Hoessli (Projektentwicklung)
Zusätzliche Kamera: Song Ting, Simon Graf, Ilkka Jarvilaturi
Kameraassistenz: Nino Pfaffenbichler, Simon Graf
Zusätzlicher Ton: Wayne Riley
Schnittberatung: Andrea Wagner
Schnittassistenz: Julia Eder, Tobias Schachinger
Farbkorrektur: Matthias Halibrand
Postprodutkion: Ulrich Grimm (av-design)
Untertitel: Mandana Taban (translatingfilms)
Grafik: Eva-Maria Frey
Übersetzung: Weina Zhao, Isabel Wolte, David Lobner, Julia Achleitner, Julia Renner
Herstellungsleitung: Brigitte Ortner
Produktionsleitung: Katharina Bernard
Aufnahmeleitung: Isabel Wolte
Postproduktionskoordination: Tobias Schachinger
Produktionsassistenz: Barbara Kainberger
Prouzent/innen: Kurt Langbein, Andrea Ernst
Presse & Marketing: Ines Kratzmüller
Weltvertrieb: Christa Auderlitzky (filmdelights)
Producers: Kurt Langbein, Andrea Ernst
Production: Langbein & Partner
If her grandmother’s life were a movie, Weina Zhao would have turned it off after just half an hour—what happens is too brutal, too tragic. So she makes her own film, together with Judith Benedikt, about her Chinese family. Weiyena – Ein Heimatfilm is testimony to a search that leads to Beijing and Shanghai, deep into the political as well as social revolutions of the twentieth century, and ultimately also to Weina Zhao herself.