Jiang Xiao Xuan is a Chinese director and screenwriter from Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.

After graduating from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Jiang Xiao Xuan began working on her debut film, setting it against her upbringing where her father was a horse breeder, and reflecting upon the integral role of horses in Inner Mongolian culture.

In 2022, her short film "Graveyard of Horses" (马冢) won the Asian Film Critics Association Award at the Busan Short Film Festival.

In 2024, her debut film, "To Kill a Mongolian Horse" (一匹白马的热梦) premiered in competition for the Giornate degli Autori at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. She subsequently won the Authors Under 40 Award for best directing and screenwriting for the film. The following year 2025, her film won the Firebird Award for the Young Cinema Competition (Chinese-language) at the 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival.

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