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Director’s Profile

Jiang Xiaoxuan is an ethnic Manchurian filmmaker born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China. Her works explore themes of femininity, animals, nature, and mysticism, in an Inner Mongolian and global context. In 2020, she received her BFA in Film from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Her latest narrative short, Graveyard of Horses (2022), was officially selected for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022 and South by Southwest 2023; won a NETPAC Award at Busan International Short Film Festival 2023; and Bronze Dinosaur Award at Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival 2022. Her first feature film in development, To Kill a Mongolian Horse, was officially selected for the Sundance Ignite Fellowship 2023 and received the Busan International Film Festival Asian Cinema Fund Script Development Fund 2023.

Synopsis

Amid the wintry steppes, Saina, a Mongolian horseman turned cultural performer, tends his ranch during the day and performs horseback tricks for audiences at night. Unlike the majestic cavalryman he portrays in the show, Saina discovers that his herdsman’s life is on the verge of disintegration.

Achievements

2024 Venice Days - Authors under 40 Award (Best directing and screenwriting)
2024 Busan International Film Festival
2024 Red Sea Film Festival - Competition
2025 Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema - Spetial Mention

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