Director: Sean Wang
The last free summer before high school becomes a crash course in growing up for a thirteen-year-old in Didi, a 2024 coming-of-age comedy-drama set in the final weeks before eighth grade ends and everything changes.
What is Didi about?
In the summer of 2008, a Taiwanese American teenager spends his last stretch of middle school freedom figuring out the things nobody sits him down to explain: how to fit in with older skaters, how to talk to a girl he likes without embarrassing himself, and how to actually see his mother as a person rather than just a parent. Online video and early social media shape how he tries on different versions of himself, while at home tension simmers between generations under one roof. The story moves through small, specific moments rather than one big crisis, building toward a quieter kind of reckoning about identity, family, and the awkward gap between who he pretends to be and who he actually is.
Cast & crew
Izaac Wang leads as the film's teenage protagonist, with Joan Chen and Shirley Chen playing family members, under the direction of Sean Wang in his feature debut.
Context & significance
Didi is a 2024 coming-of-age film from the United Kingdom and United States, running 94 minutes and set specifically in 2008, capturing a very particular moment of early internet and social media culture through a teenager's eyes. It holds a 7.3 rating on IMDb and belongs to a wave of specific, memory-driven coming-of-age stories that lean on cultural and generational detail rather than broad nostalgia. Its focus on a Taiwanese American household gives the familiar summer-before-high-school premise a distinct point of view, with language, food, and generational expectations all shaping how the central relationships play out.
Where & how to watch
Didi is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the film's specific slang, humor, and family dynamics come through clearly for Farsi-speaking viewers. All that's needed to start watching is a free K-Time account, part of a Farsi-first viewing experience built for Persian-speaking audiences.