Dìdi's Sean Wang on Capturing the 2000s in Film

Certain things about teenagers are consistent. The emotions and what it’s like to have friends and feel a sense of belonging or feel left out or feel betrayed. Those emotions are the same.”

For anyone who’s ever been a teenager. A film by Sean Wang. Winner of the Special Jury and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Now playing in select theaters, everywhere August 16.

Dìdi (弟弟) is written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sean Wang. The film is set in 2008 in the Bay Area, and is a funny, irreverent, and affecting ode to first-generation teenagers navigating the joy and chaos of adolescence as seen through the lens of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy, played by Izaac Wang (Good Boys, Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon). At its premiere in competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival it received critical and audience acclaim, winning both the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast.