Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film—Dìdi (弟弟) and Post-Screening Conversation with Sean Wang and Special Guests

Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film is a series of fresh new releases from the latest Sundance Film Festival including Dìdi (弟弟), Eno, and Seeking Mavis Beacon. The storytellers behind these films find innovative approaches of exploring the ways technology shapes our lives and the narratives we tell—about ourselves, each other, and the world. These public screenings take place across Los Angeles and feature post-screening conversations.

The Los Angeles premiere of Dìdi is followed by a conversation with director Sean Wang and special guests. 

Dìdi (弟弟)
Directed by Sean Wang, 91 minutes

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 his striking directorial debut, Sean Wang takes us on a kinetic ride through the ups and downs of adolescence, mining personal experience to share a joyful, funny, and deeply affecting ode to first-generation teenagers navigating the beauty and pain of cultural heritage in a sea of conformity. Wang confidently steers us through the freewheeling early days of social media, where AIM emoticons and MySpace rankings carry the weight of heartbreak and friendships forged and broken. Both a moving love letter to immigrant parents and a playful examination of our uncertain paths to adulthood, Dìdi reminds us that growing up and growing into better versions of ourselves are often one and the same.