Jiang Xiaoxuan

Jiang Xiaoxuan (Chinese: 姜晓萱) is a Chinese filmmaker. Her debut film, To Kill a Mongolian Horse, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024, where Jiang won the Authors Under 40 Award—Special Mention for Best Directing.

Jiang was born in Inner Mongolia and grew up in the northern mining centre of Baotou. Her father was a horse breeder and her mother came from a long line of singers. She graduated from NYU Tisch in 2020 and then from the Interactive Media Arts Low Residency Master's Program, a joint offering of NYU Shanghai and NYU Tisch, in 2022.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, in between her education at NYU Tisch and IMA, she returned to Inner Mongolia "to seek inspiration for my thesis and rediscover something new." There, she filmed a short documentary and stumbled upon "a female horse that had died of a miscarriage, beside her a lifeless fetus frozen stiff on the ground," an image that would later inspire To Kill a Mongolian Horse.

To Kill a Mongolian Horse premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024. It earned two nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, specifically best film and best director.