Dìdi (弟弟)

Two individuals seated opposite each other at a table inside a fast-food restaurant at night. On the table, there are various fast-food items including a drink with a straw, food wrappers, and partially eaten meals. The bright signage of McDonald’s is vis

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

In this funny, heartfelt directorial debut rooted in his own personal experience, director Sean Wang captures the universal awkwardness of adolescence with the precise hilarity and challenges of growing up in a first-gen family in the Bay Area in the early 2000s.

Dìdi (弟弟) screens as part of our "Worth a Watch" series. Courtesy of Focus Features and Swank Motion Pictures.