Everything about Yaya Xi-lin Wang’s 'Into the next tide' cannot be contained. The outlines of its seaborne figures are in constant flux, as is the context in which the work is presented.

KVIFF 2025: We spoke to the Nashville-born filmmaker to discuss the worldbuilding in Trashtown, USA, and rejecting the expectation of what a feminist film and a critique of capitalism need to look like.

KVIFF 2025: The first-time feature director speaks about creating an immensely collaborative and inanimate product based on improvisation and small shifts from so-called "reality".

INSIDE OUT 2025: From graduation project to festival favourite, the director and actor discuss sincerity, vulnerability, and forming relationships through images.

TRIBECA 2025: The debuting director shares how drawing from personal conversations and queer cinema from the '90s helped her create one of the strongest queer road movies of recent years.

INDIELISBOA 2025: The writer-director shares her perspective on the disruption of standardised historical narratives, the politics of representation, and fostering materiality that evokes the power of archival work.