克拉玛依 （上集）

1994年新疆克拉玛依友谊馆大火，一句“学生们不要动，让领导先走”使288名学童葬身火海，一众官员却都安然无恙。本是教育当局为了欢迎上级而设的文艺表演，最终却酿成惨案。十多年来，死难者家属始终领不到死亡证，官方也一直没有悼念活动，只强调注意力已从火灾转向促进发展。独立纪录片导演徐辛偏要旧事重提，寻找那些永远留在墓碑上的年轻笑容，回望遇难者生前的录像，聆听遇难者家属与幸存伤者的不平之鸣，正视克拉玛依的烙印伤痕。

The film opens on the morning of December 8th 2007, in Karamay's Xiaoxihu cemetery. Daybreak casts a cold grey light over faraway mountains and the Gobi sands. As the camera moves from grave to grave, it zeroes in on the photographs encased in glass on every tombstone. All are of children. Exactly 13 years ago, Karamay's Friendship Hall was the site of a horrible tragedy: nearly 800 grade and middle-school students and their teachers, hand-picked to entertain a delegation of education officials, were in the midst of a performance when a fire broke out in the hall. The students were instructed to remain in their seats so that the visiting executives could exit first. By the time the fire had been contained, 323 people had perished, 288 of them children between the ages of 6 and 14. All of the officials survived. After the tragedy, the story was heavily censored in the Chinese state media. To this day, the families of Karamay have not been allowed to publicly mourn their children.