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Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the short film. Bao is a 2018 American computer-animated short film written bao bun fillings directed by Domee Shi and produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

It is the first Pixar short film to be directed by a female director. In Toronto, Canada, a Chinese Canadian woman cooks a meal of baozi for her and her husband. One of her buns comes alive, much to her shock. She raises the steamed bun as a child, feeding and caring for it, as it enjoys the time spent with her.

Later, as the mother lies in bed, her real son enters the room, revealing that the whole sequence was an allegorical dream. His father urges him to talk to his mother, but she rebuffs him. As he and his mother sit on the edge of her bed, he offers her the same treat he once refused on the bus, which they share in an emotional moment. Bao was directed by Domee Shi and produced by Becky Neiman-Cobb. Bao was the first of 35 Pixar shorts to be directed by a woman, made more significant because of Pixar’s stigma as being a “boys’ club” as well as the fact that the animation industry is male-dominated as a whole. When asked why the film has no dialogue, Shi explained that she wanted it to be understood universally by audiences, without any language barrier.