Bedford Park

Bedford Park

In New Jersey, a car accident brings Audrey and Eli together, two Korean Americans carrying different histories of family and emotional damage. Stephanie Ahn’s Sundance prize-winning debut follows the tentative, difficult-to-define connection that grows between them.

Director

Stephanie Ahn

Runtime

117 Minutes

Country

United States

Classification

Unclassified 15+

A car accident throws Audrey (Moon Choi) and Eli (Son Sukku) together in suburban New Jersey, but Bedford Park is most alive in what happens afterwards - in the tentative, sometimes awkward ways two people begin to make room for one another. Audrey was raised in a Korean immigrant family; Eli, adopted by white parents, has grown up at a different remove from his heritage. Both carry histories of family, emotional damage and the accumulated sorrow and resentment that can pass between generations. Stephanie Ahn’s special debut trusts Choi and Sukku’s bodies, silences and gestures to chart a connection that resists conventional romantic machinery. David McFarland’s spacious, unobtrusive photography gives them room to simply exist together, allowing friendship, desire, guilt and love to co-exist without being neatly named. Bedford Park won the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature at Sundance.

“A confidently crafted gem.”

RogerEbert.com

Sundance - Special Jury Award

Film Credits

Director

Stephanie Ahn

Year

2026

Country

United States

Language

English & Korean

Subtitles

English

Type

Feature Fiction

Program Strand

World Cinema

Producer

Nina Yang Bongiovi, Gary Foster, Chris S. Lee, Theresa Kang & Russ Krasnoff & Son Sukku

Writer

Stephanie Ahn

Cinematographer

David McFarland

Editor

Malcolm Jamieson & Stephanie Ahn

Cast

Kim Eung Soo, Moon Choi, Son Sukku & Won Mi Kyung

Music

Michael Brook

Film Source

Sony Pictures Classics

Genre

BIPOC, Drama & Romance

Filmmaker in attendance, 15 October (extended Q&A)

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