Monday Night Film Series presents THE WEDDING BANQUET-FR

Event date(s): October 20, 2025
Time(s): 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Category: Fredericton
Location: Fredericton

The Monday Night Film Series presents THE WEDDING BANQUET on Monday October 20th at 7:30pm in Tilley 102, UNB.

In The Wedding Banquet, director Andrew Ahn reimagines Ang Lee’s 1993 classic with warmth, wit, and a modern lens on queer identity and cultural expectations. Min (Han Gi-Chan), a Korean heir facing deportation, proposes a green-card marriage to his lesbian friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) in exchange for funding her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) IVF treatment.

Their plan unravels when Min’s grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung) insists on a traditional Korean wedding banquet, forcing the chosen family to hide their true selves. As tensions rise, the quartet—rounded out by Min’s commitment-shy boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang)—grapple with love, identity, and generational divides. Featuring standout performances from Joan Chen and Youn, the film balances heartfelt emotion with sharp humor, exploring how far we go to protect those we love. Ahn’s collaboration with James Schamus honors the original while shifting focus to women’s stories, offering a fresh, accessible take on queer family, forgiveness, and the enduring power of chosen kinship. 

Where The Wedding Banquet really shines is in its characters, not only in its two romantic pairings that feel profoundly real, but also in subverting our expectations of its intergenerational relationships. Laura Venning, Little White Lies

The result is a beautiful blend of joy, sorrow, laughter, and drama—just the kind of film we need more of, especially from a director as compassionate as Ahn. Leo Brady, AMovieGuy.com 

The Wedding Banquet is the kind of film that reminds you why we fall in love with movies in the first place—because they surprise us, move us, and make us laugh at how messy and magnificent life can be. Alan Ng, Film Threat 

This year, 29 limited release, independent foreign & Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $10/film, but a yearly film society membership reduces admission cost to $7/film. The series is open to all. Memberships are available at Tilley 102 every Monday night.

For further info, contact NB Film Co-op 455-1632  info@nbfilmcoop.com https://www.nbfilmcoop.com/monday-night-film-series 

The NB Film Co-op in partnership with the UNB Faculty of Arts and the Toronto Film Festival presents the series.

Building: Tilley Hall

Room Number: Room 102