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.
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Basic information
Title in Serbian
SREĆNA NOVA, YIWU!
Title in English
MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU!
Title in other language
С РОЖДЕСТВОМ, ИУ
Original language(s)
kineski
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Documentary
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Premiere
30/11/2017 Roterdam, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Supported by
Filmski Centar Srbije
Swedish Film Institute
Région Ile-de-France
Doha Film Institute
Visions Sud Est
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Festivals and Awards
Sarajevo Film Festival / Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina / 2020
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Najbolji dokumentarni film
Rotterdam International Film Festival / Roterdam, Holandija / 2020
Göteborg Film Festival / Geteburg, Švedska / 2020
Hot Docs / Toronto, Kanada / 2020
Sarajevo Film Festival / Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina / 2020
FIPADOC / Biarritz, Francuska / 2021
Technical specs
Color
KOLOR
Duration
94
Digital format
DCP
Picture format
16:9
Number of frames per second
25
Picture format
2.35
Sound
DOLBY 5.1
Subtitles
engleski, srpski