The Wedding Banquet

GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival are presenting a very special out-of-festival Irish premiere of The Wedding Banquet, to coincide with Lesbian Visibility Week. A Sundance hit with an all-star cast, including Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-jung. This reimagining of Ang Lee’s classic 1993 film, is a gorgeous indie rediscovering that explores queer family at its messiest and most beautiful, from queer director Andrew Ahn.

From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can't afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris 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 flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent that includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee's beloved, award-winning rom-com teems with humor and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.

The Wedding Banquet will be on general release in Ireland from 9th May 2025.

Dir: Andrew Ahn, USA, 2025, 1 hr 43 mins