Directing
Zao Xu
Place of birth
Anshan, Liaoning, China
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Born in 1991 in Anshan (China), Zao Xu is a screenwriter, director, and production designer. He studied at the Beijing Film Academy. His animated short No Changes Have Taken in Our Life premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and received multiple national and international awards. His second short film, Love Music Friend, screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Light Pillar marks his debut feature film.
Known for
8.0The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film studio with only a former cat actor for company until he embarks on a romantic journey with a female player in a beautiful virtual world.
Light Pillar
2026
NRBa graduates from college with a major in sousaphone. With his suitcase packed and his instrument straddled to his body, he returns to his hometown, optimistic about finding a satisfactory job as a musical artist. When his father kicks him out for refusing to play for his new girlfriend, Ba begins a journey through the rundown streets of the small, working-class town, encountering a series of taciturn characters both new and familiar.
No Changes Have Taken In Our Life
2023
A skilled illustrator who rebuilds her life through rooftop gardening after AI steals her drawing skills and takes her job.
Easy, My Friend
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Behind the camera
8.0The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film studio with only a former cat actor for company until he embarks on a romantic journey with a female player in a beautiful virtual world.
Light Pillar
2026
8.0The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor tends the grounds of a dilapidated bankrupt film studio with only a former cat actor for company until he embarks on a romantic journey with a female player in a beautiful virtual world.
Light Pillar
2026
NRBa graduates from college with a major in sousaphone. With his suitcase packed and his instrument straddled to his body, he returns to his hometown, optimistic about finding a satisfactory job as a musical artist. When his father kicks him out for refusing to play for his new girlfriend, Ba begins a journey through the rundown streets of the small, working-class town, encountering a series of taciturn characters both new and familiar.
No Changes Have Taken In Our Life
2023
A skilled illustrator who rebuilds her life through rooftop gardening after AI steals her drawing skills and takes her job.
Easy, My Friend
—
A skilled illustrator who rebuilds her life through rooftop gardening after AI steals her drawing skills and takes her job.
Easy, My Friend
—