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Merry Christmas, Yiwu

Merry Christmas, Yiwu

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 24, 2020

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

Merry Christmas, Yiwu

Production Companies

Svenska Filminstitutet

Director

Mladen Kovačević

Description

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.