# @nextshark on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C69rd7MSMau
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17538600-nextshark-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-05-14T21:22:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NextShark (@nextshark) — https://gondola.cc/nextshark

## Caption

"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."⁠
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DÌDI means 'little brother' in Mandarin; but beyond that, DÌDI is used an an endearing term that many Chinese parents call their younger sons. ⁠
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Sean Wang, the director of the film, is a DÌDI himself. Wang shares that this film 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."⁠
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Sean Wang is also the director of the short film "NǍI NAI AND WÀI PÓ."⁠
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## Tags

skating, focusfeatures, didimovie, aapihm, taiwaneseamerican, news, comingofage, aapiheritagemonth, aanhpi, seanwang, sanfrancisco

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