Directing

Lulu Wang

Born February 25, 1983 · Beijing, China (age 43)

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, p…

Known For

The Farewell

The Farewell · 2019

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Dìdi (弟弟)

Dìdi (弟弟) · 2024

MovieComedyDrama

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Harvest

Harvest · 2025

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing · 2019

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

MovieComedyScience Fiction

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.

Posthumous

Posthumous · 2014

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Pisces

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

Can-Can

Can-Can · 2007

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.

Touch

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.

Filmography

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The Farewell

The Farewell · 2019

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Writer

Dìdi (弟弟)

Dìdi (弟弟) · 2024

MovieComedyDrama

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Thanks

Harvest

Harvest · 2025

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.

Thanks

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing · 2019

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

MovieComedyScience Fiction

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.

Director

Posthumous

Posthumous · 2014

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

Pisces

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

Director

Can-Can

Can-Can · 2007

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.

Director

Touch

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.

Director

The Eyes Are the Best Part

The Eyes Are the Best Part

The Eyes Are the Best Part

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.

Producer

Children of the New World

Children of the New World

Children of the New World

MovieDramaScience Fiction

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.

Director

Neighbors

Neighbors · 2021

An older reclusive woman develops a close relationship with her recently widowed neighbor in an attempt to allow herself to be loved.

Thanks

Expats

Set against the complex tapestry of Hong Kong residents, a multifaceted group of women sets off a chain of life-altering events that leaves everyone navigating the intricate balance between blame and accountability.

Executive Producer