JESS X. SNOW (INDEPENDENT)
 
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Completed - ENGLISH, MANDARIN - Drama, LGBT, Social issues - 15 minutes

Log Line

When her immigrant mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in between her mother’s grief and her muralist partner’s mission for community catharsis, and must confront the barriers to her own healing.

Year of production : 2024

Director(s) : Jess X. SNOW
Writer(s) : Jess x. SNOW, Kit YAN
Cast : Shirley CHEN, Pearl WU, Che' LI

Producer(s) : Frisly SOBERANIS, Akemi LOOK, Eris QIAN, Yumeng HAN

Synopsis

When her mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist and heir of her mothers ancestral practice is pushed to the edge of what her mental health can handle. Thrust in the middle of her immigrant mother’s grief and her partner’s quest for collective catharsis, Kai must confront the healing she most resists and choose what is most important to her.

Production

Country(ies) : USA, CANADA

Festivals and Awards

BFI London FF 2024 Shorts programme
BFI London FF 2024


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