Mimi’s Confusion
Director:Yang Miaojing
Screenwriter:Yang Miaojing, Wang Chen
Cast:Sun Chenxi
Producer:Wang Chen
Cinematographer:Lu Yiming
Running Time:24mins
Region:China
Year:2024
Language:Chinese Dialect
Production Company:Communication University of China
SYNOPSIS
In 2013, in a small county town in central China, ten-year-old girl Mimi was deemed too boyish by the adults. In order to prove that she was a girl, she struggled to assert her identity, nearly making a big mistake.
Director Biography
Yang Miaojing, a native of Weinan, Shaanxi Province, grew up in a family of teachers. At one year old, she cried her eyes out. At five, her goldfish died. At ten, she lost a bag. By sixteen, she had maintained first place in her class for seven consecutive years. At the age of 20, she made a film about dreams (Library Paradise). At 23, she made another film about working mothers (Duty On and Off) . At 24, she made a film about her childhood (Mimi’s Confusion).
Director's Statement
The story comes from my mother’s pregnancy dream, where there was a snake at first, then a chicken ate the snake…Gradually the boy predicted by the fortune teller became a girl—me. The film describes the real fear I experienced at the tender age of 10, when I was plain looking, aggressive, and stunted in growth. I often wondered: If I could have been a boy in my mother’s womb, would I one day be proven to be a boy? That question lingered until my period came one day. There comes Mimi, a girl who looks so much like a boy that even she thinks she might be a boy, how can she prove that she has a girl’s body? Driven by her curiosity, she made many interesting attempts until she provoked strong reactions from the adults who had ignored her from beginning, which hurt her deeply.




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