directed by: Bing Liu, year: 2018
actors: Bing Liu

Filmmaker Bing Liu returns to his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, to explore the lives of three friends as they grow from teenagers into adults. Through intimate interviews, vérité footage, and skateboarding scenes, the film traces how trauma, family dynamics, and masculine expectations shape their choices and relationships. As the trio confronts violence, loss, and loyalty, Minding the Gap offers a candid, humane meditation on coming of age, friendship, and resilience. With quiet humor and piercing honesty, it reveals how early experiences ripple into adult choices.

Social Issue, Documentary, Coming Of Age, Autobiographical, Social Realism