Adolescence sucks, and Didi, which hits theaters on July 26, captures its ups and downs with a humor that often elicits as many tears as laughs. The story of a Taiwanese-American teen whose summer ...

A new film delves into feeling alienated in the Myspace era as an Asian American teen, and it doesn’t help that your immigrant family can’t help with cultural and social navigation. “Didi,” which ...

The experience of growing up has been captured on film countless times — and for good reason. There is perhaps no other period of life that feels more sensitive, more eye-opening or more chaotic than ...

Izaac Wang in writer-director Sean Wang's "Dìdi." (Courtesy Focus Features/Talking Fish Pictures, LLC) The thing about being a teenage boy is that it’s terrible. You’re all hopped up on hormones and ...

It’s tough being a teen. On the heels of his Oscar-nominated short film “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó,” director Sean Wang’s new film “Dìdi” explores the growing pains of adolescence through the lens of Chris, a ...

There has long been a truism in Hollywood that movies released in August are second-tier, that anything coming at the tail end of the summer season is being expelled rather than released. It sometimes ...

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The coming-of-age story is a constant in cinema — after all, in one way or another, we all had to make the journey from childhood to adulthood. It’s a common tactic for up-and-coming writers and ...

Dìdi (2024) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Sean Wang and starring Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Zhang Li Hua, Mahaela Park, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Sunil Maurillo, Joziah Lagonoy, ...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Gala will present the annual Vanguard Awards and honor Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute. “Championing independent ...

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