For anyone who's ever been a teenager. Winner of the Special Jury and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. DIDI 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.
Directed by Sean Wang, the film stars Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Joan Chen, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Mahaela Park, Chiron Denk, Sunil Maurillo, Montay Boseman, Georgie August.
Didi opens in US cinemas on 26th July 2024.
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.
Directed by Sean Wang, the film stars Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Joan Chen, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Mahaela Park, Chiron Denk, Sunil Maurillo, Montay Boseman, Georgie August.
Didi opens in US cinemas on 26th July 2024.
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Short filmTranscript
00:00 [EXPLOSION]
00:01 [LAUGHTER]
00:02 Get in the car!
00:03 Get in the car!
00:04 [SCREAMING]
00:05 [TYPING]
00:07 [BEEPING]
00:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:10 What was your name again?
00:11 Chris.
00:12 All my friends just call me Wang Wang.
00:13 What should I call you?
00:14 Um--
00:15 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:18 You're never going to survive high school.
00:21 You're like a lizard with your scaly ass eczema skin.
00:23 It's a face!
00:24 Ah, lizard bitch!
00:25 You just called me a bitch!
00:26 Bitch.
00:27 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
00:29 Nobody likes you!
00:30 I want it!
00:31 Drag me down!
00:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:35 [LAUGHTER]
00:37 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
00:40 Oh, Chris.
00:41 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
00:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:44 [SCREAMING]
00:45 Yo, Wang Wang.
00:46 No one even tripped.
00:47 You got strong ass teeth.
00:48 You're handsome.
00:49 That's why Maddie likes you, baby!
00:51 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:54 Lean into the person until your lips touch.
00:57 Have you ever played the nervous game before?
01:00 Are you nervous?
01:02 Yes.
01:03 What?
01:04 I am nervous.
01:05 I just--
01:06 I'm sorry.
01:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:10 [PANTING]
01:13 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:16 [SCREAMING]
01:19 Did it.
01:20 Are you sad?
01:21 It's fine.
01:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:27 I'm thinking of you.
01:28 Come on.
01:29 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
01:31 I'm your son.
01:32 I'm sorry, but I'm bragging rights to your friends!
01:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:38 If you guys need a filmer, I film.
01:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:43 So who are those more people you've been hanging out with?
01:46 Friends.
01:47 Promise me you won't do anything stupid.
01:49 [SCREAMING]
01:52 [COUGHING]
01:54 Please don't tell mom.
01:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:58 Tom, are you ashamed of me?
02:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:03 I am getting you.
02:05 No, you're beautiful.
02:06 I'm having you.
02:07 No, I love you.
02:08 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
02:10 [SCREAMING]
02:13 [THUD]
02:14 But sometimes it's a little hard.
02:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:20 (upbeat music)
02:22 (explosion)