All That We Love

Yen Tan · 2024 · 90 minutes

OPENING NIGHT FILM

Following the death of the family dog, Emma Gwon (Margaret Cho) is faced with an empty nest and is compelled to forge deeper connections with the people around her. Despite good intentions, her midlife awakening makes everything more chaotic for everyone in her path.

This includes her estranged ex-husband Andy (Kenneth Choi), who has returned from Singapore after his career implodes and he’s forced to moved in with his sister Raven (Atsuko Okatsuka); their free-spirited daughter Maggie (Alice Lee), who’s relocating to Australia with her boyfriend (Devon Bostick) without Emma’s approval; her best friend Stan (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), who’s also experienced a loss and is expressing his grief through a lifestyle makeover; and her work colleague Kayla (Missi Pyle), who fosters animals and may just have a four-legged friend to soothe Emma’s woes.

All That We Love is a heartfelt and poignant depiction of grief and what it means to start anew. Through richly drawn characters, the film gently blends sorrow with insightful humor in its exploration of themes that are universal to all of us: aging, friendship, parenthood, mortality, past loves, second chances, and the profound connection with our pets.

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Yen Tan is an award-winning Chinese American writer and director. He premiered 1985 at SXSW 2018, a GLAAD-nominated and critically-acclaimed New York Times Critic’s Pick feature starring Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, and Jamie Chung. His previous film, Pit Stop, premiered at Sundance 2013 and was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Yen co-directed Until We Could with David Lowery, an Addy-winning PSA for Freedom to Marry that was narrated by Robin Wright and Ben Foster. He was named an OUT100 by Out Magazine. Yen was born and raised in Malaysia and is presently based in Austin.

Kelly Williams is a creative producer, Independent Spirit Award Winner, and co-founder of Ten Acre Films. Their latest release, What Happens Later, starring Meg Ryan and David Duchovny, is now on VOD in the US and continuing its theatrical release internationally. Williams and producing partner Jonathan Duffy also produced numerous films which have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including Sorry to Bother You (2019 Independent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature), Light from Light, The Long Dumb Road, Hellion, Beaver Trilogy Part IV, and Pit Stop, which was nominated for the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Award.