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IDFA 2022

Will You Look at Me

Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou
Shuli Huang
China
2022
21 min
Dutch Premiere
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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.

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Director
Sound Design
    Jingxi Guo,
    Nicolas Verheaghe
    Jingxi Guo,
    Nicolas Verheaghe
Music
    Nicolas Verheaghe
    Nicolas Verheaghe
Screening copy
    Lights On
    Lights On
World Sales
    Lights On
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