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Have You Eaten?

Name: Have You Eaten?
Duration: 5 min

Lina Li

2020 | 5 min

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.

Part of THE CURVE, a collection of social distancing stories that bring us together. Enjoy more works from this series here .

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