Yuqi Kang is a Mongol Chinese Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada.
 
Her MFA thesis film, A Little Wisdom (2017), premiered internationally at the Busan International Film Festival, SXSW, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and Shanghai International Film Festival. The film received the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs before winning the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC. It was subsequently acquired by Amazon Prime for international streaming. Following its international premiere, Yuqi was selected for DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40, recognizing the next generation of documentary filmmakers.
 
Her second feature documentary, 7 Beats Per Minute (2024), premiered at SXSW and Hot Docs before a theatrical release across North America. The film won the Audience Award, screened internationally through the Ocean Film Tour across 16 countries, and continues to stream worldwide. Most recently, she directed and produced the feature documentary Fruit Is Ripe (2025), commissioned by TELUS Originals.
 
Yuqi’s work has been supported by Telefilm Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Media Fund, CBC, TELUS, Creative BC, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, TIFF Talent Lab, the Canadian Film Centre Directors’ Lab, Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Eggcelerator Lab, Tribeca Film Institute, Hot Docs Accelerator Lab, the Canadian Academy for Women Directors, and FIRST Lab in China. She holds an MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking.
 
In narrative cinema, Yuqi transforms outward experience into an exploration of the inward shadows of humanity and femininity through genre storytelling. She is currently developing and producing her debut narrative feature, Caecilians, with Conquering Lion Pictures.