Have You Eaten?

2020

5 min

English

A Daughter and Her Mother Reconnect Over Chinese Dumplings

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Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short, filmmaker Lina Li and her mother engage in an intimate conversation about immigration to Canada, misunderstandings, barriers to communicating, love and the taste of home.

Status
Released
Production
ONF | NFB, The New Yorker Studios

Keywords

  • migration
  • food
  • family
  • pandemic

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Top Cast

Yan Gao as Herself

Top Crew

Lina Li · Director, Writer

Maria Komech · Editor

Justine Pimlott · Producer

Anita Lee · Executive Producer

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