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I like to focus on the inner worlds of children and the lived experiences of women, often exploring the blurred boundaries between memory and imagination—those moments where it becomes impossible to tell one from the other. I’m drawn to landscapes, communities, and people who are slowly disappearing, using cinema as a way to preserve what is fragile and fading. Nostalgia is a constant thread in my storytelling, shaping the emotional tone of my films and guiding my search for what lingers in the spaces between past and present.
Country: China
T-Port Partner: TalentBridge – Clermont Ferrand 2026
Webpage: https://www.xiafans.com/
Xia Fan is a Chinese filmmaker with a background in French literature and film studies. After five years working in video marketing in London, she trained at the London Film School, where she wrote and directed four short fiction films and a documentary. Her graduation film, My Friend Songzhi, has been included at the Cannes Short Film Corner and the Festival of Future Storytellers in Munich, and has been selected by the London Global Film Awards and the Vienna International Film Awards.
After the death of an old woman known as "Crazy Granny," a little girl sneaks...
