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.
Original Title Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou Year of production 2022 Length 20min Country China Shooting Format Super 8mm/16mm Aspect Ratio 4:3 Dialogue Mandarin
Director Shuli Huang Producer Shuli Huang Production Exposed Pictures Writer Shuli Huang Cinematographer Shuli Huang Editor Shuli Huang, Yang Yang Sound Nicolas Verhaeghe, Jingxi Guo Cast Yunxue Yu, Kangmin Huang, Shuli Huang Festival selections Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2022, France - World Premiere, Queer Palm Award Melbourne International Film Festival 2022, Australia - Best Documentary Short Film Award Concorto Film Festival 2022, Italy - Young Jury Special Mention Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022 Castrovillari Film Festival 2022, Italy - Best Editing Award Tirana Film Festival 2022, Albania Nashville Film Festival 2022, USA Vancouver International Film Festival 2022, Canada IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2022, The Netherlands Hamptons International Film Festival 2022, USA Desenzano Film Festival 2022, Italy - Best Short Film Award Kaohsiung Film Festival 2022, Taiwan Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte 2022, Brazil DOK Leipzig 2022, Germany - Golden Dove Award (Best Short Film) CinéMartinique Festival 2022 Adelaide Film Festival 2022, Australia Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2022, Spain San Diego Asian Film Festival 2022, USA - Best International Short Film Award DOC NYC - New York's Documentary Festival 2022, USA - Special Mention NewGen Chinese Film Festival 2022, Germany Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2022, Australia MixBrasil Festival de Cultura da Diversidade 2022, Brazil Cortos en Grande 2022, Chile Izmir International Short Film Festival 2022, Turkey Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2022, Germany Golden Horse Awards 2002- Best Documentary Short Film The Montreal International Documentary Festival 2022, Canada Beijing Queer Film Festival 2022, China Beijing International Short Film Festival 2022, China Festival du film LGBT de Paris Chéries Chéris 2022, France - Jury Award Queer Wave, the Cyprus LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2022 Beirut Shorts International Film Festival 2022, Lebanon Bogoshorts - Bogotá Short Film Festival 2022, Colombia - Best International Documentary Short Film Award FamilyLens Film Festival 2022, China Pingyao International Film Festival 2022, China Sundance Film Festival 2023, USA - Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction Vilnius International Short Film Festival 2023, Lithuania Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2023, USA ReFrame Film Festival 2023, Canada Festival Allers-Retours 2023, France Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2023, France PinX - LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023, Belgium Dublin International Film Festival 2023, Ireland Director's Statement From New York City to my hometown Wenzhou, bidding farewell to my lover and moving back with my parents, I don’t feel at home anywhere anymore. Will You Look At Me, in which I point the camera at my family and myself, is a personal essay on fear, silence, and love. Through the camera lens, my distant gaze seems to be given justification and courage. As I was filming my mother, I wondered what it was like to be in her womb, before I was born, when we were the closest and connected, in the water.
