Baby, Don't Cry

Step aside, John Hughes, and relinquish your crown because coming-of-age teen romance will never quite be the same after Zita Bai’s Baby, Don't Cry! Baby (Bai), a Chinese immigrant in suburban Seattle, makes sense of her troubled home life and outsider existence through her indie DIY films and her animalistic visions of the world. When she meets Fox (Vas Provatakis), a skid-row punk with questionable decision-making skills, a whirlwind of intensity, ferocity, and sexuality engulfs the pair. Teetering between Baby’s fantastical visions and Fox’s raw punk-rock ethos, the two dive headfirst into this powder-keg romance with no holds barred. Attempting to navigate their past traumas and hopeless future, the two struggle with a relationship that is against all odds. (Fantasia International Film Festival)