Documentary

Have You Eaten? (2020)

吃饭了吗?

A Daughter and Her Mother Reconnect Over Chinese Dumplings

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.

Production

ONF | NFB · The New Yorker Studios