Eva Weber

Eva Weber is an acclaimed filmmaker known for MERKEL (“A revealing portrait” – IndieWire), THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES (“One of the most absorbing documentaries of the year” – Observer), and BLACK OUT (“Eye-opening” – Hollywood Reporter). Her fiction short FIELD STUDY was nominated for a European Film Award. A recipient of the Sundance Global Filmmaking Award and Sundance Lab Fellow, her award-winning work has screened at 100+ festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, and IDFA.

GHOST WIVES tells the true story of Song Tiantang, a 53-year-old man who murdered six women to sell their bodies for ghost weddings —a traditional Chinese ritual of marrying the dead. Though banned under Mao, these ceremonies have resurged in rural areas like Shanxi, where mining deaths have fueled a black market for ghost brides. At its core, GHOST WIVES is a haunting reflection on the commodification of women and the forgotten lives at the margins of modern China.