Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó Trailer Previews Oscar-Nominated Short Film

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Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó Trailer Previews Oscar-Nominated Short Film

Disney+ has shared a brand new Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó trailer for the upcoming documentary short film, which will start streaming on February 9.

This comes after Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó recently received an Academy Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary Short Film. In addition to the trailer, a new video of director Sean Wang and his grandmothers has also been shared, featuring their emotion reactions to finding out about their film’s Oscar nomination.

Watch Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó trailer below

What to expect in Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó?

“The documentary short film is a personal love letter from first generation Taiwanese-American director Sean Wang, to his grandmothers,” reads the synopsis. “He turns a camera on his grandmas, who are inseparable best friends and roommates in their 80s and 90s. The 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.”

Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó is produced and directed by Wang, with Sam Davis and Malcolm Pullinger serving as producers. Filmed during the pandemic, the multigenerational story will be part of Disney Branded Television’s upcoming relaunch of the People & Place documentary short film series, which originally premiered from the early ’50s to the ’60s.

The creative team also includes executive producer Joanna Natasegara and Joyce N. Ho, who handled title, subtitle, and end credits’ design as well as animation. The short had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it took home the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award.