About
Ruan Lan-Xi is a Chinese filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin. She studied directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). Her work moves between film, photography, and writing. She tells stories of women and migrants, of how identity and intimacy surface through the rhythm of everyday life. Her debut feature, THE PLANT FROM THE CANARIES, will premiere at the 78ᵗʰ Locarno Film Festival in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente section.
As a photographer, she has been invited to Ping Yao International Photography Festival on 2014, with the Monochrome documentary series “Dali” and later curated by Wang Bing as her first solo exhibition in Dali, China. During the lockdown of the pandemic in Berlin, she created her latest photography work, a staged series titled “Soft Animal”, which was featured in Fotograf Magazine(Czech Republic).