Thirteen minutes that'll make you text your ex-best friend at 2am.
Soap is a short film that explores the value of platonic intimacy, especially in the queer community. Based on past heartbreak and present friendship.
Direction
Lulu Wei packs a lifetime of longing into 13 minutes.
Acting
Silences so loaded they need their own billing.
Cinematography
Bathrooms as sacred spaces. You'll never look at soap the same.
Director
Lulu Wei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wei shot this in an actual Toronto apartment, using friends' spaces to capture the intimacy of real queer lives on screen.
Part of a wave of Canadian shorts (2022-2024) rejecting queer trauma narratives for something messier: love that doesn't end, it just changes shape.
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