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UK Premiere: Merry Christmas, Yiwu (U) + ScreenTalk

Architecture on Film

,Cinema 2
Merry Christmas Yiwu

With 600 dedicated festive factories, Yiwu, China, fabricates Christmas for the world. Following several workers, a delicate, human film looks beyond the tinsel and glitter, into the ‘Chinese Dream’.

With beautiful images and cinematographic flair, the film weaves its non-fiction content into the form and feel of naturalistic fiction, intimately following its protagonists as they pursue their labour, lives and aspirations, at the factory, at leisure and at home.

As baubles are bagged and reindeer stuffed, the film intimately observes the dance of the global and the local, capitalism and Communism, tradition and modernity in today’s China. A portrait of transforming socio-economic realities, with the city of Yiwu offering a subject, symbol and setting, within which individual lives unfold.

Curated by the Architecture Foundation.

Tagged with: Cinema Architecture on Film

2020, Sweden, Serbia, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar, dir Mladen Kovačević, 94 mins

This screening has been locally classified.

Cinema 2

Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.