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I Wish You Happy Moon Festival

One overseas phone call, but one phrase was lost to the receiver of the call.

  • Xiaolu Wang
    Director
  • Naomi Ko
    Producer
  • Melissa Vang
    Producer
  • Xiaolu Wang
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    祝你中秋节快乐
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    China, United States
  • Language:
    Mandarin Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Courtisane Festival 2023
    Gent
    Belgium
    March 31, 2023
    https://www.courtisane.be/nl/event/selectie-9-morgan-quaintance-xiaolu-wang-kevin-jerome-everson
  • Barcelona International Short Film Festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    November 14, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Mimesis Documentary Festival
    Boulder
    United States
    August 3, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Images Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    July 7, 2022
    Canadian Premiere
    "More with Less" award
  • Taiwan International Documentary Festival
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    May 6, 2022
    Asia Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Minnesota International Film Festival
    Duluth
    United States
    April 27, 2022
    Minnesota Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Exploding Cinema
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 30, 2021
  • Millennium Film Workshop Channel
    New York City
    United States
    September 24, 2021
    online
Director Biography - Xiaolu Wang

Xiaolu Wang (b. 1991, Yinchuan) documents, curates, translates, who maps interiority, mixes video, poetry, memory, translations and a decolonial lens. They seek, be, host, read, and fly kites. Suspended in between places and metaphorical landscapes, they listen for cat purrs and warm spells.

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Director Statement

Between unsatisfying phone calls, between every Chinese holidays I grew up with but no longer remember to celebrate, between the haunting hours of COVID solitude, between the repetitive motions of life, between new moons and full moons, between catching up on World Cinema, between autobiographies and suicidal authors, between Bryant Ave and 33rd, between cat naps, between uprisings and trials, between the smell of incenses, you might find the grief in my lungs, breathing in and breathing out. This is a film in honor of my grandmother, who is breathing with me in the spirit world and patiently waiting for me to return.