Bi Gan (film director)
Bi Gan | |
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| 毕赣 | |
Bi Gan at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | June 4, 1989 Kaili City, Guizhou, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
Bi Gan (simplified Chinese: 毕赣; traditional Chinese: 畢贛, born 4 June 1989) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer.
His feature directorial debut, Kaili Blues (2015), earned him Best New Director at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards, Best Emerging Director at the 68th Locarno Film Festival, and the Montgolfière d’Or at the 37th Three Continents Festival in Nantes. His follow-up feature, Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 71st Festival de Cannes and earned him a Best Director nomination at the 55th Golden Horse Awards. His third feature film, Resurrection (2025), premiered in Competition at the 78th Festival de Cannes and was presented with a Special Award by the jury.