Qiu Yang

Qiu grew up in Changzhou before studying painting and film at the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia.

In 2017, he was the first-ever Chinese director to win a Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival, he then came back to his hometown with She Runs, awarded the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize during the 58^th edition of La Semaine de la Critique. The story of a teenager who tries to find freedom within a suffocating sports hall. O [5×1] is his first VR work. His first feature film, is a longer version of the prior short Under the Sun that was selected for CineMart at IFFR in 2016.

Filmography