Roots That Reach Toward The Sky

After her mother’s traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, Kai draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties.

Film Content Advisory: Anti-Asian Racial Slurs, Anxiety Attack, Emotional Pain 

Credits
Writer: Jess X. Snow, Kit Yan
Producer: Akemi Look, Frisly Soberanis, Yumeng Han, Eris Qian
Executive Producer: Jess X. Snow, Kit Yan
Director of Photography: Sheldon Chau
Editor: Guangwei April Du
Production Designer: Prisca Choe
Composer: Treya Lam
Sound Designer: Yuming Zhang and Haina Zhou
Music: Treya Lam

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Can I Borrow a Feeling?

As long as we’ve been telling stories, tales of longing have been part of the human ethos. They are no stranger to any medium, let alone cinema. Plots and characters change, but the sentiment is always the same and always relevant. Yet, just as in life, longing is never the end of the story. Comfort, connection, or a revelation emerge in unexpected ways—through new companions, within our families and friends, the language we share, or even a new hairdo.