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 ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Focus Features will release “Dìdi” in theaters Friday, July 26. Anybody who’s suffered through the ...

Sean Wang’s “Didi” is a coming-of-age tale told at the dawn of social media's omnipresence in our lives. But the film is not an exercise in nostalgia for the late aughts. Whether you are a teenager ...

Opinions are the author’s alone and not endorsed by 2 NEWS and/or Nexstar Media Group. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Winner of the 2024 Audience Award for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sundance Film Festival 2024 coverage continues with two entries involving youth and navigating social circles at a vulnerable age. The first is a sequel to the documentary Boys State titled Girls ...

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 ...

In the U.S. Dramatic Competition film Didi, the feature debut of writer-director Sean Wang, a Taiwanese American boy learns to skate handle the emotions of adolescent longing in the summer before high ...