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My own work is driven by the desire to enter into that kind of exchange. I search for openings through which to emotionally speak with the world while resisting the need to dominate that exchange. Whether portraying young people confronting state reforms, a girl negotiating the politics of her own body, or intimate lives shaped by surveillance and expectation, I am interested in how individuals locate agency within larger systems. Cinema, to me, is a way of structuring attention toward those tensions.
Country: China
Xinyue Wang is a director and screenwriter who uses cinema to search for ways of entering into dialogue with the world. She is currently an MFA candidate in Directing at Columbia University and works across a wide range of film and media projects, with her work engaging international film festivals. Rooted in a global perspective and sustained by critical inquiry, her work moves with tide like surges of emotion. Coco looks steadily at world’s noise and chaos, creating from a place of deep interior listening. Her films speak through what cannot be substituted, shaped by intuition, restraint, and an insistence on emotional truth.
Unjust funeral reforms spark a slow-burning fury among the young, led by Yu Hui, who...
