After seven years abroad in Poland, Chinese filmmaker Mo Tan returns home for the Lunar New Year, only to be drawn back into the emotional pull of her family. When a fortune teller warns that a mole on her face will bring misfortune, her parents insist she have it removed. Mo refuses, but their fixation, compounded by a fractured family dynamic and her own unraveling relationship, begins to push her to the brink. A breast cancer diagnosis forces her to confront both her mortality and the unsettling possibility that fate might be real. Blending raw documentary intimacy with stop-motion animations and a tragicomic tone, “Confessions of a Mole” explores tradition, illness, and the generational wounds that echo through families. It’s a story of a family struggling to reconnect, make sense of the past, and rediscover love in the long shadow of trauma.
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projection time:
92 min
country/year:
China, Poland /2025
director:
Mo Tan
original language of the film:
Chinese regional dialects, Polish, English, Mandarin Chinese
pictures:
Mo Tan
editor:
Marcin Strauchold, Mo Tan
production:
Li Shanshan, Tatiana Matysiak, Daria Zienowicz, Piotr Matysiak / Beyond Frozen Films, SQUARE film studio sp. z o.o., BEEFilm Piotr Matysiak
