Watch the official trailer for ‘DÌDI ( 弟弟)’, written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sean Wang (also known for ‘NǍI NAI AND WÀI PÓ’). “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,” the film’s logline reads.

“‘DÌDI ( 弟弟)’ is everything I want to say now about everything I experienced then,” Sean explains. “It is an ode to the joy and chaos of adolescence, it is a thank you, I’m sorry, and I love you to the immigrant mothers that raise us, and it is an examination of how it feels to learn to love yourself during a time when the world says you are unworthy of it. But more than anything, it is the movie I know my younger self would have loved to see: a coming-of-age movie set in a place I know, starring people who look like those I knew, during a moment when we are the worst versions of ourselves having the best time of our lives.”

A few fun facts about the film:

👵 Sean Wang's real grandmother (Chang Li Hua) plays the role of Wang-Wang's grandma in the movie. She is also the star of his recently Academy Award-shortlisted short film ‘NǍI NAI AND WÀI PÓ.’

🎨 The paintings that Wang-Wang's mom paints in the movie were actually painted by Sean's mom, Cynthia Lee.

🛏 Wang-Wang's bedroom in the movie is Sean's actual childhood bedroom in Fremont. Wang-Wang’s sister’s bedroom was also filmed in Sean’s childhood room.

‘DÌDI ( 弟弟)’ was the winner of the Special Jury and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Only in theaters July 26.