Project Detail

A Winter Mirage

Name: A Winter Mirage
Director: Guoju Wang
Genre: Asian, Biography, Docufiction, Drama, Human Rights
Released: 2025
Duration: 30 min

Synopsis

In Chinese, ‘golden-age’ and ‘mirage’ share the same sound. On the 2024 Winter Solstice in Yiwu, China’s largest trading hub, single mother Yu considers closing her accessory shop and returning to her old opera job amid the 2024 economic decoupling. It’s a story of my mum, one day of her life.
An experimental cross-cultural moving-image work exploring memory, labour and urban transformation through long-take narrative and hybrid documentary aesthetics.
Official Selection 36th JCC Carthage Film Festival - World premiere
Official Selection Premiers Plans Film Festival Angers 2026

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 30 min
Director: Guoju Wang
Producer: Kuo Li Lilibet
Editor: Guoju Wang
Screenwriter: Guoju Wang
Director of Photography: Boyuan Li
Sound: Qi Liu
Principal cast: Xiaofeng Chen

Genre

Asian Biography Docufiction Drama Human Rights Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Mille Plateaux Films (CN), London Film School (UK) production

London Film School (LFS)

39-41 Parker St
London
WC2B 5PQ

Visit Website

Sales Company

Mille Plateaux Films

Hangzhou
China 311215

+86 13106258678

Page updates

This page was last updated on 16th March 2026. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments