Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo (Chinese郭小 橹, Pinyin Guo Xiǎolǔ; * 1973) is a Chinese film director and writer.

Life

Guo grew up in a fishing village in the south of China. Her father, a painter, sat during her childhood for ten years in prison. As a 20 - year-old she was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, was during her studies there, but because of the harsh censorship realize not have its own movie. She has published since the study period but their own texts, for example, in 1999, Who is my mother's boyfriend? .

From 2002, she lived for nearly six years in London. In London in 2003, she turned in a few weeks short film Far and Near, was followed by The Concrete Revolution in 2004, How Is Your Fish Today? 2006 We Went to Wonderland 2008. One of her greatest successes so far followed a year later by winning the Golden Leopard at the International Locarno Film Festival for She, a Chinese ( 2009). The drama tells of the unsuccessful attempt at integration of a young Chinese woman who emigrates to the United Kingdom.

Works (selection)

• Who is my mother's boyfriend? (我 妈妈 的 男朋友 是 谁Where mama de shi shei nanpengyou? ) (1999 )
• Village of Stone (我 心中 的 石头 镇Where Xinzhong de shitou zhen ). (City of stones. Knaus Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3813502538 ).
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers. Chatto & Windus, London 2007 ( Small dictionary for lovers. Translation from the English by Anne Rademacher. Knaus Verlag, 2003 ISBN 978-3-8135-0304-3. )
• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. 2008
• UFO in Her Eyes. 2009 (a UFO, she thought translation from the English by Anne Rademacher. Knaus Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8135-0353-1 ).
• Lovers in the Age of Indifference. 2010

Filmography

• 2009: Women ceng jing de wuchanzhe (documentary)
• 2009: She, a chinese
• 2011: UFO in her eyes