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Xisi Sofia YE CHEN
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Born in Barcelona in 1994. She grew up in a family of Chinese immigrants who had settled in Barcelona in the post-Olympic era, moving between four languages: Qingtianese, Mandarin, Catalan, and Spanish. After studying Humanities, she completed a Master′s in Creative Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University. Following the short film Xiaoqiang′s Daydream (2020), she directed her first feature documentary, From Dawn to Dawn, which chronicles her brother′s life. The film portrays a portrait of her brother "A Wen," in which a gangster past and a search for spiritual redemption coexist amid the uprootedness of Barcelona′s Chinese community. It was completed with support including the Márgenes Work Award, the Lau Haizetara Forum Award, Zinebi Networking, and D′A Final Cut, and screened at Doclisboa, the Triana Film Festival, and elsewhere. It won the Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Competition at the 2026 Visions du Réel festival.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
