My Sweet Pala

Eleven-year-old Pema is so busy making friends – and pressuring her parents into letting them come over to their house for playdates and sleepovers – that she doesn’t think that her Tibetan heritage makes her any different than her other American classmates. Her stay-at-home father Kelsang and nurse mother also try to give their daughter a sense of normalcy, but they can’t quite protect her from small microaggressions which quickly escalate into racist misunderstandings.