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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dìdi (弟弟)
2024
Thanks
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
2023
as Self
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
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
2021
Writer, Director, Story
A Chinese New Year legend reimagined as a contemporary coming-of-age story.

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Director
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
2019
Writer, Director, Producer
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
2014
Writer, Director
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
2014
Director, Writer
An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles...

Can-Can
2007
Director, Screenplay
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
2005
Producer, Director
Explores the family dynamic between an introspective teenage girl and her single mother
Again Again Again
N/A
Producer
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
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
N/A
Writer, Director
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 ...