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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.K. premieres of Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” and Sean Wang’s “Dìdi” will open and close the 11th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London. Both films won awards at the Sundance Film Festival in ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Joan Chen. The actor is getting Oscar buzz for the new film, "Dìdi," in which Chen plays the mother of a Taiwanese-American skater kid in the Bay Area. A new coming-of-age ...

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