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Glory of Documentary: Self-Portrait, 2025

Confessions of a Mole

一颗痣的自白

Director TAN Mo

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After seven years abroad in Poland, Chinese filmmaker Mo TAN returns home for the Lunar New Year and is quickly pulled back into the emotional gravity of her family. When a fortune teller warns that a mole on her face will bring misfortune, her parents insist on its removal. Mo refuses, but their obsession with her, paired with their fractured relationship and her own failing romance, pushes her to the edge. A breast cancer diagnosis forces her to confront both her mortality and the possibility that fate might be real. Blending raw documentary intimacy with a tragicomic tone, CONFESSIONS OF A MOLE explores superstition, illness,and the inherited wounds between generations, revealing a family struggling to reconnect, understand the past, and rediscover themeaning of love in the shadow of trauma.

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Sat, 10/24

15:30End time to be confirmed

Screen 5, Changjiang Cinema, Starry Community (Hanghuicheng)

1024-CJ5-1530Subtitles unknown

Sun, 10/25

10:00End time to be confirmed

Theatre 113, Building No.3

1025-B3-1000Subtitles unknown

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Director: TAN Mo
Original title: 一颗痣的自白
Country/Region: China, Poland
Year: 2025
Length: 92min
Section: Glory of Documentary: Self-Portrait
Edition: West Lake International Documentary Festival 2026, No. 8
Original language: Chinese
Selection: Official selection
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Director: TAN Mo
Producer: LI Shanshan, Tatiana Matysiak

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