Jiajie Yu Yan
Directing
Biography
Jiajie Yu (1989) is a Taiwanese/Spanish director, screenwriter and producer from Barcelona. His short films have been selected in more than 100 national and international festivals. Nominated twice to the Goya Awards, the first time as director and screenwriter of the short film Xiao Xian (2020) and the second time as producer of the short film Chaval (2023). Several of his works have achieved the Vimeo Staff Pick seal and have been shared on platforms such as NOWNESS, Booooooom, Directors Notes.... He is currently developing his first feature film, San Dai Shi Guang (Three Ages), produced by Solita Films, Coming Soon Films and Zeta Studios and distributed by Elastica Films and FILMIN, and his second feature film, Times of Loneliness, Violence and Youth, produced by CANADA. Both feature films have been selected in several development and production labs, such as Torino Film Lab, Residencias Academia de Cine, Bridging the Dragon, Ties That Bind, MFI Script 2 Film Workshop... Jiajie Yu is part of the first edition of Spain Stars of Tomorrow of the prestigious British film magazine Screen International, chosen as one of the 10 emerging talents with greater international projection.
Known For
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Xiao Wei
She now lives many miles away from her mother, who is waiting to hear from her. It is a bittersweet, restless, nostalgic moment, and she remembers those vanished years.
No Voice
explores the struggle of three characters to maintain their virtual identities, navigating the pressures of digital validation, depersonalization, anxiety, and the dissonance between online and real life.
Sense filTRES
After the death of their father, two sisters who have gone their separate ways meet again to settle the inheritance.
Crías
Xiao Xian is in charge of finishing a dress. Her mother has decided that she is going to take care of it that night, and she obeys, as usual. Sheng Xia, her best friend, shows up at her house to convince her to go partying. Xiao Xian accepts, but she cannot imagine what will end up happening that night.
Xiao Xian
A young woman arrives in a city for the first time. She observes the people around her and realizes that she does not belong to that world, everything is alien to her. Even so, she tries to pretend to be one of them, to fit into this strange place.
Aliens
A simple tribute to Cinema since its beginning, its myths, classics, genres, actors, actresses and directors. A tribute to pictures turning alive, to all those who made this as the seventh art and those who keep it alive nowadays.
Tribute to cinema
Xiaowei, a 7-year-old Chinese boy, arrives at Barcelona in 1992 to reunite with his parents who emigrated to Spain when he was still a baby. Kaiwen, his mother, struggles to create a bond with him, but Xiaowei is unable to correspond. Their difficult relationship will extend throughout his adolescence and adulthood, facing various moments of crisis such as the divorce of his parents and the closure of the family business.
Three Ages
An elderly man is traveling on a train to Buriram by a promise he has made many years ago with his best friend from childhood, who died a few days ago. A young backpacker, who just starts his own solo trip through Asia, sits next to him. They strike up a conversation and talk about life and friendship along the way.