Indie Spirit Revue: "Dìdi (弟弟)"
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 10:00AM by Nick Taylor
The 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, February 22nd. Every voter has until February 13th to submit their choices. I'm enamored with most of this crop of nominees, and in celebration of an amazing year for independent cinema, I'll be profiling some of these lineups and nominated films. First up are the firsts: Best First Feature and First Screenplay, two categories with phenomenal taste and considerable overlap. Oscar will likely nominate none of these films, and that's their loss. But we get to celebrate them, and if any Academy voters are reading this, do your duty on behalf of good art! Nominate these movies!!! You'll be better and cooler for it!
The first film in this series of reviews is Oscar-adjacent in a way. After all, its director was just nominated last year for Best Documentary Short. It's Sean Wang's Dìdi…
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