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Goodbye First Love
In-Person Only
Date/Time: 9/15 (Sun) 2PM EDT (Doors open at 1:30PM)
Location: DCTV 3rd Floor Studio, 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013
Streaming is available in the U.S. from 9/16 12:00 AM EDT - 9/22 11:59 PM EDT.
This film is part of Shorts: Love Letters To You program. Please note: while the rest of the program is available both in-person & virtual, Goodbye First Love is only available in person.
Director Huang Shuli
Country USA
Year 2024
Languages Mandarin
Genre Docu-fiction
Running Time 13 min
He pays him a visit in Frankfurt during his work trip in Europe. He talks about their time in Beijing, back in 2015. He listens and, sometimes, answers, unblurring those seemingly important details, which do not matter any longer. Worn-out joy and fresh weariness. This could be the last time they see each other.
Shorts: Love Letters To You Screening + Q&A
Date/Time: 9/15 (Sun) 2PM EDT (Doors open at 1:30PM)
Location: DCTV 3rd Floor Studio, 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013
The venue is wheelchair-accessible and has an all-gender bathroom. Live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be available. If you have any other questions, check out the FAQ page.
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Tickets
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Director's Statement
One autumn afternoon in 2022, I was on the train to Frankfurt, to visit Simu, a friend I hadn’t seen since my teenage years. I had never been to Germany or Frankfurt. The scenery outside the train window was totally fresh and unfamiliar, yet the feeling of arriving at a foreign land in search of someone from your past was way too familiar and dear to me.
I started writing the script on the train as I was arriving in Frankfurt and decided to cast Simu and myself. And fortunately, I had a small DVCam with me.
We spent an afternoon together, rehearsing, conversing, revisiting some blurred moments of lives in front of the camera, and the film, to us, is a souvenir.
Director's Bio
Huang Shuli (he/him)
Shuli Huang is a Chinese writer-director and cinematographer living in New York City.
His second short film, WILL YOU LOOK AT ME (2022), premiered at the 61st Semaine de la Critique where it was awarded Queer Palm of Festival de Cannes 2022, and went on to win Short Film Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival 2023. GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (2024), his latest short film will premiere in competition at Berlinale shorts 2024.
He has also worked as cinematographer on several feature films, including FAREWELL, MY HOMETOWN (2021), which received the New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival 2021, and BORROWED TIME (2023), selected for International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024.
Shuli studied cinematography at the Beijing Film Academy and film directing in the Graduate Film Program at New York University.
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