About

Yifei He is a Beijing-based filmmaker, photographer, and writer working in Chinese and English. Raised in a Hui minority family in China, her work explores the emotional terrain of living between cultures, languages, and inherited histories. She approaches home not as a fixed place, but as an evolving sense of belonging—one continually renegotiated through migration, memory, and intimate relationships. Her films are particularly attentive to women’s inner lives and to the ways identity is shaped by family, heritage, and displacement.

Yifei holds an MFA in Filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her directorial debut short film, A Farewell, was selected for the Seattle International Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Fajr International Film Festival, and other festivals worldwide. Films she has produced, including Pearl and The Exam, have been presented at festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, Raindance, and FIRST International Film Festival.

She is currently developing her first feature film.