Lulu Wang

Lulu Wang

1983-02-25 Beijing, China 13 Credits

Biography

Lulu Wang (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.

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Dìdi (弟弟)

Dìdi (弟弟)

2024

Thanks

7.2

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 ...

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

2023

as Self

Acting

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin ...

Neighbors

Neighbors

2021

Thanks

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

Nian

Nian

2021

Writer, Director, Story

6.0
Writing Directing

A Chinese New Year legend reimagined as a contemporary coming-of-age story.

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

2019

Director

6.0
Directing

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the pas...

The Farewell

The Farewell

2019

Writer, Director, Producer

7.4
Writing Directing Producing

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's dec...

Posthumous

Posthumous

2014

Writer, Director

5.9
Writing Directing

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 rep...

Touch

Touch

2014

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles...

Can-Can

Can-Can

2007

Director, Screenplay

1.0
Directing Writing

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 be...

Pisces

Pisces

2005

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

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

Again Again Again

N/A

Producer

Producing

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 wi...

Untitled Lulu Wang Project

N/A

Director

Directing

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 pare...

Children of the New World

Children of the New World

N/A

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

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 ...