Herbal Tea

Herbal Tea

Finalist
Director: Li Andi

Synopsis

I grew up in Guangzhou and lost my job for writing the name of a herbal tea, bansha, with the wrong character. Then the stress gave me acne, and my roommate thought I had too much "heat" and took me to drink bansha tea. Just then I received mutton rice noodles sent from my hometown. Looking at the hard-to-swallow herbal tea and the "heating" mutton noodles, I began to think about belonging. What is a sense of belonging? What makes us feel we belong? I cannot speak Cantonese, and I cannot speak the Guizhou dialect either, so where am I from? With my friends looking after me, I realize that wherever there is love is my home, because belonging is people's attachment to love, and only when immersed in love do people take on the local culture.

Film Information

Director:

Li Andi

Screenwriter:

Li Andi

Cinematographer:

Yang Chuqi | Wei Yiyang