Zuxin Hou

Director

A Beijing-born filmmaker, Zuxin Hou directed The Italian Recipe, Anywhere But Here and My Dad's a Rocker before co-directing A Message for the Butterfly with Mark Wachholz in the Shanghai International Film Festival's AI Backlot programme. The short, a meditation on memory and identity built around Zhuangzi's butterfly dream, won the programme's Honor for Industrial Exploration.

One film in 2026. Made with Mark Wachholz.