
Dìdi (弟弟)(2024)
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.


Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Pansy

Michele Austin
Chantelle

David Webber
Curtley

Tuwaine Barrett
Moses

Ani Nelson
Kayla

Sophia Brown
Aleisha

Jonathan Livingstone
Virgil

Jo Martin
Nurse Salon Client

Llewella Gideon
Smoking Salon Client

Yvette Boakye
Salon Client
Hard Truths is a drama, comedy film released in 2024 exploring themes of dysfunctional family, family relationships, sympathy, broken family, dramedy, sisterhood. Directed by Mike Leigh, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber. Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
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