Will You Look at Me

China
2022
Documentary
20 min.

Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou

 

Director | Shuli Huang
Script | Shuli Huang
Director of photography | Shuli Huang
Editing | Shuli Huang, Yang Yang
Script | Nicolas Verhaeghe, Jingxi Guo
Composer | Nicolas Verhaeghe
Main cast | Yunxue Yu, Kangmin Huang, Shuli Huang
Producer | Shuli Huang
Production company | Exposed Pictures

 

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.

 

About the director:

Shuli Huang is a writer-director and cinematographer born in Wenzhou, China. After graduating from Beijing Film Academy in 2019, he moved to New York City as an MFA candidate for NYU graduate film program. Farewell, My Hometown, his feature debut as a cinematographer won the New Currents Award during the 26th Busan International Film Festival in 2021. His second short film, Will You Look At Me, was selected for the 61st edition of La Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2022.