Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava

i got into a fight with my vietnamese mom earlier in the day before watching this, so it hit a little too close to home even though this doc is marketed as a queer, asian, mental health story, it more felt like a documentary about family and how the different aspects of…

Mich

“If you were in this situation, how could you not get mad?” says Mai nearly an hour into this bracing documentary. And it got me thinking about the emotional labor it takes to foster genuine kinship within a family in flux. To hold someone real close. What does it mean to…

Lé Baltar

In the middle of the film, we find the author has completely let down his guard, bearing his thoughts and emotions not just to his partner within the plane of the subject matter but also, point-blank, to the audience. This was a moment of vulnerability, an exposure of the…

feedingbrett

An intimate doco that makes you feel part of the family. It'll break your heart then rebuild it again. I know this story will stick with me for days.

Elyse

SFF #4 Documentary got the whole diaspora crying

gumscape

SFF #4  Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava really beautifully captures the stickiness of family. This film touches on perspectives of acceptance and love within families of that feels so honest. It’s so sweet and endearing and funny it’s hard not to love.

GrimyKino

I loved this with my whole heart and shed so many tears. Flamboyant Baby brings us into domestic tensions and intimacies. We observe a portrait of family across generations, learning of their individual dreams and fears through diaries and archival photographs. Embracing…

cassli

deeply intimate and scarily relatable for me as a queer person in a traditional Vietnamese household. parents are survivals cause life never treats them easily. and children will always be their burden cause forever we owed them their whole life.

umi

This really grew on me as it went along. What I love most is how the documentary doesn’t simply centre on Quong, but gives equal space to his sister and mother, allowing their stories and personal arcs to feel just as compelling and fully realised. I also really enjoyed the…

Jayden Lim