Asian Pride Cinema Opening x Roze Filmdagen - The Wedding Banquet (2025)

Asian Pride collaborates with Roze Filmdagen to bring the much anticipated The Wedding Banquet (2025) to the Netherlands for the first time.

Tickets - https://www.ketelhuis.nl/films/the-wedding-banquet-ism-asian-pride-en-roze-filmdagen/

A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Plans evolve as Min's grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet.

From director Andrew Ahn comes a comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity.

Angela (Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran) and her partner Lee (Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon) have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min (South Korean actor Han Gi-Chan), the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa.

When Min’s commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (“Saturday Night Live” and Fire Island’s Bowen Yang) rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s skeptical grandmother (Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-Jung, “Pachinko”, Minari) flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.

With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational that also includes Joan Chen (The Last Emperor), this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, award-winning romcom teems with humor and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.

Co-written by Andrew Ahn (director of Spa Night and Fire Island) and James Schamus, who co-wrote the 1993 original film.

This event is open to all, everyone is welcome!

Tickets - https://www.ketelhuis.nl/films/the-wedding-banquet-ism-asian-pride-en-roze-filmdagen/