Biography

Dongnan Chen crafts films that turn lived experience into cinematic fables, exploring transitional identities and the in-between spaces of reality and the imagined. Her works include 14 Paintings (Sundance, IDFA, MOMA DocFortnight), Singing in the Wilderness (IFFR, New Directors/New Films), Sound of Vision (Emmy-nominated), and The Trail from Xinjiang. Whispers in May, her second feature, premieres at CPH:DOX’s DOX:AWARD 2026.
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