2021 | United States | Fiction,Short

Roots That Reach Toward The Sky

  • Mandarin, English 16 mins
  • Director | Jess X. Snow
  • Writer | Jess X. Snow, Kit Yan
  • Producer | Yumeng Han, Akemi Look, Eris Qian, Frisly Soberanis

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

When her mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in the middle of her immigrant mother’s grief and her muralist partner’s quest for community catharsis. Throughout the course of a day, Kai must find the healing she most resists and confront her role in the community.

A matriarchal inter-generational drama about how the diasporic plants that are considered “invasive species” can actually bring us profound healing.

Chinese Shop Botanist Immigrant Catharsis Community Invasive Species