MERRY CHRISTMAS YIWU

MERRY CHRISTMAS YIWU

Country/ies
Serbia
Production
Iva Plemic Divjak,Mladen Kovacevic,Mario Adamson,Jasmina Sijercic
Editor
Jelena Maksimovic
Length
93
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2020
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2017
Distribution

Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for the entire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrants in their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss their families left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from the factories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired of long factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not care for their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese tradition and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.

Festivals & Awards
2021 FIPADOC (France) – International Documentary
2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands) - World Premiere
2020 Göteborg Film Festival (Sweden)
2020 Hot Docs (Canada) - World Showcase (North America Premiere)
2020 Sarajevo Film Festival (Bornia) - Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Documentary
Production & financial support