Project Detail
A Winter Mirage
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
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
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Guoju Wang
- Producer
- Kuo Li Lilibet
- Editor
- Guoju Wang
- Screenwriter
- Guoju Wang
- Director of Photography
- Boyuan Li
- Sound
- Qi Liu
- Principal cast
- Xiaofeng Chen
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
A Mille Plateaux Films (CN), London Film School (UK) production
London Film School (LFS)
39-41 Parker StLondon
WC2B 5PQ
Sales Company
Mille Plateaux Films
HangzhouChina 311215
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