AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • Best Short Film Award, Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, AmericanAnthropological Association, USA

2019

  • Kinokneipen-Preis Audience Award nominee, 24th International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany

2018

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

  • 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

2016

EXHIBITIONS

  • MODO Visual Anthropology Screening Series, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

2024

  • VSW Salon, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, USA

2023

2022

  • Mapping Entanglements Online Media Exhibition, Finger Lake Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, USA

  • The Contest over “Indigeneity”: Film and Ethnography in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, US

  • Film of the Day Programme, This Is Short Film Festival, The European Short Film Network

2021

  • Screenings of Chinese Documentary Films, University of Torino, Torin, Italy

2020

  • 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

2019

  • 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

2018

  • 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

2017

  • 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

2016

  • EXiS Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea

2014

  • 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

2013

SELECTED REVIEWS

  • Zimmermann, Patricia. “The Migrating Documentary Cinema of Yi Cui”. The Edge. 29 May 2023. Web

  • Holsgens, Sander. “The Porosity of Film: A Review of Yi Cui’s Of Shadows”. Visual and New

    Media Review. Society for Cultural Anthropology, 19 Mar. 2020

  • Overton, Tom. “Oberhausen Film Festival”. The White Review, June. 2017. Web

  • Gray, Carmen. “Ten of the Best Short Films of the Year So Far”. AnOther, June. 2017. Web

  • Tsui, Clarence. “Cinematic Convergences, Collective Intelligence: The 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam”. Film Quarterly, Vol. 69 No. 4, Summer 2016

  • Duzan, Brigitte. “Cui Yi Présentation”. Chinese Movies, 11 Mar. 2016. Web

  • Delgado, Mónica. “Lima Independiente 2016: Of Shadows de Yi Cui”. Desistfilm, Jul. 2016. Web

  • Rusalen, Francesca & Francesco Cazzin. “Of Shadows”. L’emergere Del Possibile, Feb. 2016. Web