Lulu Wang

Directing

Lulu Wang

Born 1983-02-25 · Beijing, China

Lulu Wang (Chinese: 王子逸; pinyin: Wáng Zǐyì; born February 25, 1983) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the comedy-drama films Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019). For the latter, she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and the film was named one of the top ten films of 2019 by the American Film Institute. Wang has also written, produced, and directed several short films, documentaries, and music videos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lulu Wang (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Farewell poster
7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019

The Farewell poster
7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019

The Farewell poster
7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing poster
5.3

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

2019

Posthumous poster
6.0

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.

Posthumous

2014

Posthumous poster
6.0

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.

Posthumous

2014

Pisces poster
NR

Explores the family dynamic between an introspective teenage girl and her single mother

Pisces

2005

Pisces poster
NR

Explores the family dynamic between an introspective teenage girl and her single mother

Pisces

2005

The Eyes Are the Best Part poster
NR

A terrifying tale of misogyny, Asian fetishization and cannibalism that follows a struggling college freshman named Ji-won who develops an obsession with eating human eyes.

The Eyes Are the Best Part

No artwork available
NR

Follows a famous actress whose upscale New York lifestyle is disrupted when a young man appears, claiming to be her long-lost son.

Audition

No artwork available
NR

Follows a famous actress whose upscale New York lifestyle is disrupted when a young man appears, claiming to be her long-lost son.

Audition

No artwork available
NR

Follows a famous actress whose upscale New York lifestyle is disrupted when a young man appears, claiming to be her long-lost son.

Audition

Touch poster
6.0

An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behavior understood.

Touch

2014

Touch poster
6.0

An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behavior understood.

Touch

2014

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NR

Gus, man of honor for his closest friend Maggie’s extravagant wedding weekend at a Napa winery, is tasked with making sure the whole event goes off without a hitch. But when Gus' wildly charismatic but emotionally unstable boyfriend Hal unexpectedly shows up, chaos ensues and threatens to derail the wedding as well as their relationship.

Again Again Again

Children of the New World poster
NR

Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society.

Children of the New World

Children of the New World poster
NR

Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society.

Children of the New World

Can-Can poster
1.0

Mr. Fix-It, his wife calls him. She felt safer with him at home, and he helped look after the children, especially the baby. He lingers at the door before leaving the house to meet Sarah, whom his wife knows but does not suspect, and with her go to a house on a lake his wife knows nothing about.

Can-Can

2007

Can-Can poster
1.0

Mr. Fix-It, his wife calls him. She felt safer with him at home, and he helped look after the children, especially the baby. He lingers at the door before leaving the house to meet Sarah, whom his wife knows but does not suspect, and with her go to a house on a lake his wife knows nothing about.

Can-Can

2007

No artwork available
NR

Inspired by Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son, follows a businessman who discovers that his son was switched at birth with another set of parents' child, and the one he's come to love is not actually his.

Untitled Lulu Wang Project