In the seedy back rooms of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer seeking closure reanimates his dead father for one last conversation... awakening phantoms of unspoken grief.
Director's Bio: Julian Doan is a writer/director preoccupied with the mundane, ironic, and absurd.
His short films RASPBERRY (Sundance 2021) and LONG'S LONG LOST & MINI MART (Tribeca 2025), are the first 2 of his "dead dad trilogy", to be completed with his 1st feature HALF SWEET (Gotham Project Market 2021) - a Tati-esque satirical tragicomedy about a family keeping a dying father alive against his will. Together, these films all explore the commodification of grief.
He's also an editor and assistant editor with credits such as THE SYMPATHIZER, IN TREATMENT, MAINSTREAM, and WILD WILD COUNTRY.
He’s a recently converted cat daddy.
In the seedy back rooms of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer seeking closure reanimates his dead father for one last conversation... awakening phantoms of unspoken grief.
Director's Bio: Julian Doan is a writer/director preoccupied with the mundane, ironic, and absurd.
His short films RASPBERRY (Sundance 2021) and LONG'S LONG LOST & MINI MART (Tribeca 2025), are the first 2 of his "dead dad trilogy", to be completed with his 1st feature HALF SWEET (Gotham Project Market 2021) - a Tati-esque satirical tragicomedy about a family keeping a dying father alive against his will. Together, these films all explore the commodification of grief.
He's also an editor and assistant editor with credits such as THE SYMPATHIZER, IN TREATMENT, MAINSTREAM, and WILD WILD COUNTRY.
He’s a recently converted cat daddy.