Xue luo Yili

JORIS IVENS AWARD

Life with the Hassake, a tribe of nomadic shepherds from the Xinjiang province close to the Kazakh border. Baheila, a twelve-year-old girl, learns how to help with the everyday chores. But soon she will have to leave her sheep and attend school. “Life is like a snowfall, it flies down to earth from the sky, then slowly melts and evaporates. Later, other snows will fall.”