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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 factory wages, most workers can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded factory dormitories, all migrants in their own country. Stuck in between the Chinese traditions and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, they want to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.
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18. 12. 2020
True Story, episode 7: Merry Christmas, Yiwu
The last True Story podcast of this year is here just before Christmas and it brings a conversation between Nicole Adelman and Mladen Kovačević about the film Merry Christmas, Yiwu, a gorgeous multi-layered narrative of factory and family life in China.
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12. 10. 2020
Silver Eye Award 2020 nominees
The Institute of Documentary Film will give Silver Eye Award to the best short and feature documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe in the East Silver Market at the online edition of the 24th Ji.hlava IDFF (October 27 – November 8, 2020).
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