Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó

First-generation Taiwanese American Director Sean Wang turns a camera on his grandmas (his “Nǎi Nai” and “Wài Pó”), who are inseparable best friends and roommates in their 80s and 90s. The Academy Award®-nominated film captures their daily lives in hilarious and unexpected ways as they dance, stretch, and fart their sorrows away—eventually giving way to a poignant meditation on lives marked by both joy and pain. Together, grandmas and grandson remind us that getting older doesn’t have to mean fading away.

• Director

  Sean Wang

• Cast

  Yi Yan Fuei, Chang Li Hua

• Awards

  • Nominee - 2024 Academy Award® for Documentary Short Film