DOCUMENTARY WEDNESDAY DOCZIMA / MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU / 20.12.2023. / 20:00

DOCUMENTARY WEDNESDAY DOCZIMA

Screening of the documentary film “DokZima” of beings held every Wednesday from December 6 to 28 in the Hall of the Cultural Center of Belgrade at 8 p.m. With the desire to refresh, remind and engage the audience, through screenings of four domestic feature-length documentaries (on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.) and discussions with the authors after the screenings, “DokZima” presents a platform for promoting the often hidden world of domestic documentaries to cinema audiences.

20:00
MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU
Serbia, Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, 2020, 93’

Director: Mladen Kovačević

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.

Festivals: Rotterdam International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival – Heart of Sarajevo Awards for the Best Documentary Film, Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, Doclisboa, Portugal

* Q&A after the screening