Shuli Huang is a Chinese writer-director and cinematographer based in New York City, whose work drifts between fiction and vérité. His short film Will You Look At Me premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, where it received the Queer Palm award, and went on to win the Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023. In 2024, his short film Goodbye First Love premiered in competition at the Berlinale Shorts. As a cinematographer, Shuli’s work includes feature films such as Farewell, My Hometown, which won the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival 2021, and Borrowed Time, selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024.
Shuli Huang
Shuli Huang participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Shuli Huang’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heaven Is Still Far Away 天国はまだ遠い | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi | Japan | 2016 | 38’ | ||
| La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe | Werner Herzog | Germany, Guadeloupe | 1977 | 31’ | ||
| Female Directors 女导演 | Mingming Yang | China | 2012 | 43’ | ||
| Revolving Rounds | Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik | Austria | 2024 | 11’ | ||
| Venise n'existe pas | Jean-Claude Pousseau | France | 1984 | 11’ | ||
| A Tree In Tanjung Malin 丹絨馬林有棵樹 | Tan Chui Mui | Malaysia | 2004 | 24’ | ||
| Léthé ლეთა | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Georgia | 2016 | 15’ | ||
| Bad At Dancing | Joanna Arnow | USA | 2015 | 11’ | ||
| Sun Dog Sun Dog | Dorian Jespers | Belgium, Russia | 2020 | 20’ | ||
| Katatsumori かたつもり | Naomi Kawase | Japan | 1997 | 39’ | ||