Yuqi Kang is a Mongol Chinese Canadian filmmaker. Drawing from her cross-continental journey, her storytelling moves between the intimate and the epic, often inhabiting liminal spaces between cultures, identities, and emotional truths.

 

Her debut feature, A Little Wisdom (2017), premiered at Busan, SXSW, Karlovy Vary, and Shanghai, earning numerous awards including Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs and the Grand Jury Award at DOC NYC. Her second feature, 7 Beats Per Minute (2024), premiered at SXSW, Hot Docs, Warsaw, and Hainan. Following many festival awards, the film was theatrically released in Canada in 2025 and is currently headlining the Ocean Film Tour with over 180 theatrical screenings across 16 countries in Europe and Asia. It also travels with Banff China, with theatrical screenings in major Chinese cities throughout 2025 and 2026. Both films have been nominated for the Jean‑Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.

 

In 2019, Yuqi received the DOC NYC 40 Under 40 honour. She is also an alumna of Berlinale Talents, TIFF Talent, the Canadian Film Centre, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Canadian Academy for Women Directors, and FIRST Lab in China.

 

She is currently working on her narrative directorial debut, Caecilians, a feminist horror.