Will You Look at Me

Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou

  • Shuli Huang
  • China
  • 2022
  • 21 min
  • Dutch Premiere
  • Best of Fests

After spending some time in New York, filmmaker Shuli Huang returns to his hometown of Wenzhou. Without his lover, who is about to start studying in Belgium, he is alone with his family. Huang’s mother can’t accept that her  son is gay, and begs him to lead a “normal” life. We hear their conversations in the form of a voice-over, as they run the gamut from self-reproach and wailing to emotional blackmail. Motherly love and social conventions collide painfully time after time, without any resolution.

Huang edited the conversations to Super8 material filmed during his visit home, of a city through fogged-up glasses, loving shots of his mother, flashes of his father, and the filmmaker himself: a shadow, waving to the camera but never truly in view. This intimate and gorgeously composed film won the director a Queer Palm at Semaine de la Critique in Cannes.

Credits

  • 21 min
  • color
  • DCP
  • Spoken languages: Mandarin
  • Subtitles in: English
Director
Shuli Huang
Production
Shuli Huang
Cinematography
Shuli Huang
Editing
Shuli Huang, Yang Yang
Sound Design
Jingxi Guo, Nicolas Verheaghe

IDFA history

2022
Dutch Premiere
Best of Fests

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