Goodbye First Love

31/10/2024 - quanly

Short Film/ USA/ 12 min/2024

Director: Shuli Huang

Screenwriter: Shuli Huang, Simu Chen

Director of Photography: Shuli Huang

Production: Shuli Huang, Kunao Yan

Sound Design: Jingxi Guo

Cast: Simu Chen, Shuli Huang

Synopsis:

Seven years after they broke up, two men reconnect in Europe for an afternoon and reminisce about their relationship back when they were college students in Beijing. They talk about rent, boyfriends, tattoos, and that time they climbed Jing-Shan Mountain outside Beijing and took photos that are now forever stuck in an iPhone that can’t be turned on anymore.

Director’s biography:

Shuli Huang is a writer-director and cinematographer born in Wenzhou, China. After graduating from Beijing Film Academy in 2019, he moved to New York City as an MFA candidate for NYU graduate film program. Farewell, My Hometown (2021) his feature debut as a cinematographer won the New Currents Award during the 26th Busan IFF in 2021. His second short film, Will You Look At Me (2022), was selected for the 61st edition of La Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2022 and it won Queer Palm.