AWARDS AND HONOURS
2019 Best Short Film Award, Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, American Anthropological Association, USA
2018 Audience Award nominee, 24th International Short Film Week,
Regensburg, Germany
2017 Grand Prize, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Bois d’Arcy Prisoners’ Award, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France
Special Mention of the Jury, Festival Cinemistica, Granada, Spain
2016 Libraries Award, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France
Joris Ivens Award Nominee, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France
Bright Future Award nominee, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands
FIPRESCI Prize Nominee, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Netpac Award Nominee, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Chinese Documentary Award nominee, Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Best Canadian Documentary Award nominee, DOXA International Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
REVIEWS (selected)
2023 Zimmermann, Patricia. “The Migrating Documentary Cinema of Yi Cui”. The Edge.
2020 Holsgens, Sander. “The Porosity of Film: A Review of Yi Cui’s Of
Shadows”. Visual and New Media Review.
2017 Gray, Carmen. “Ten of the Best Short Films of the Year So Far”. AnOther
EXHIBITIONS
2024 MODO Visual Anthropology Screening Series, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
2023 VSW Salon, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, USA
2022 Mapping Entanglements Online Media Exhibition, Finger Lake Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, USA
2021 The Contest over “Indigeneity”: Film and Ethnography in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Film of the Day Programme, This Is Short Film Festival, The European Short Film Network
2020 Screenings of Chinese Documentary Films, University of Torino, Torin, Italy
2019 Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, Nepal
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, USA
Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque, USA
2018 24th International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany
Busan International Short Film Festival, Curtain Call Section, Busan, South Korea
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Minneapolis, USA
Northampton Film Festival, Northampton, USA
European Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
Film Festival della Lessinia, Bosco Chiesa Nuova, Italy
Seoul Senior Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Little Cinema International Festival for Experimental Films and New Media Art, Kolkata, India
Ba Li Shan Independent Film Screening Series, Bishan, China
Screening Series at Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
Zarya Centre for Contemporary Art. Vladivostok, Russia
2017 Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival, Main Program, Vienna, Austria
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
26th Edition of Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France
UNDERDOX Film Festival, Munich, Germany
Cinemaforum Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Film Festival Message to Man, International Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia
San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, USA
International Intangible Heritage Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
Foradcamp Cinema and Nature Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
Awarded Film Rerun, The Civil Society of Multimedia Authors (La Scam), Paris, France
Cinéme du Réel, Paris, France
Film Festival Message to Man, International Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia
Cinéma Vérité, “Mirror of Festival” Program, Tehran, Iran
Screening Series of The Association of Culture and Cinema — Cinéma Le Roxane, Versailles, France
“Meet the Director” Independent Film Series, The University of Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Festival of Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Screening at XN Contemporary Art Space, Xi Ning, China
Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
David Lam Centre Screening series, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canadas
“Art and Space” Independent Film Series, OCT Cotemporary Art Terminal & 33 Space, Shenzhen, China
Screening and artist visit at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Screening at School of Film and Media Studies, State University of New York at Purchase, NY, USA
2016 The Free Screen/Wavelength, TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto, Canada
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cinéme du Réel, Paris, France
EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
DOXA International Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Chinese Film Festival, La Rochelle, France
Comptoir du Doc Film Festival, Rennes, France
Lima Independent International Film Festival, Lima, Peru
2014 EXiS Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2013 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Australia International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NeMaF), Seoul, South Korea
Arkipel International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia