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A Winter Mirage

A Winter Mirage
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

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

Categories

Fiction

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

Sales Company

Mille Plateaux Films

Hangzhou
China 311215

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