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.

2026
Bedford Park
Bedford Park
Director
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
