🌳 Won the Audience Award in U.S. Dramatic category of Sundance Film Festival
🌳 First feature film of Oscar-nominated director Sean Wang
🌳 Profound performance by Joan Chen, the Best Actress of the Golden Horse Awards
It's 2008 in California, and Didi, a Taiwanese-American boy, is experiencing a crazy time growing up on his last summer vacation before going to middle school. Didi's worries and burdens include his grandmother and mother's excessive care, the shooting of a skateboarding video, the bitterness of his first love, and a bad relationship with his sister.
Oscar-nominated Taiwanese-American writer-director Sean Wang's nostalgic story of Asian immigrants in the U.S., which resonates with the local community in a unique way. Golden Horse Best Actress winner Joan Chen as a mother who sacrifices her dreams for her children, and rising star Izaac Wang as a rebellious son.
Director: Sean Wang
Cast: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen
 | About the Director Sean Wang is a Taiwanese American film director. His feature-length directorial debut, Dìdi, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. His documentary short, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó won both the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award. Wang is from California with a Taiwanese background. He attended and graduated at the University of Southern California and worked for Google Creative Lab. He participated in multiple Sundance Institute programs, including the director and screenwriter labs. | |