Movies: Shirley Chen

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....

A couple buys a house from The Slumlord Tapes, infamous for hidden cameras and a psycho landlord. It's not as safe as they tell themselves....

A brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman, Anne, and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts. When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild, cross-...

In a high school theater class, Krista uses her scene study as catharsis....

When her immigrant mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in between her mother’s grief and her muralist partner’s mission for community catharsis, and must confront the barriers to her own healing...

A girl needs her brother to fulfill an odd request, a good trip turns bad, a CEO gets invited to a mysterious party, and it all centers around the iconic red crustacean....

A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town....

Joan Huang, a desperate-to-fit in, insecure Chinese American teenager, undergoes experimental trans-racial surgery to become white and secure her chances of being named Prom Queen and winning the acceptance of her peers....

In small town Pennsylvania, a directionless Asian-American teenager receives existential advice from an unexpected source....

A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world....

A teenage couple tries to buy the morning-after pill in a post Roe America....

Three generations of women say goodbye to their family ballroom dance studio....