Film Screening & Conversation with the Director: The Taste of Rice Flower《米花之味》

With unsparing realism, The Taste of Rice Flower portrays the relentless clash between tradition and modernity in China through the story of Ye Nan, a young Dai minority mother returning to her village from bustling Shanghai to rebuild her bond with her daughter.

As elements of a coming-of-age tale emerge, the film delves into broader themes of a sense of uprootedness and shifting identities amid economic migration and societal transformation. Ye Nan belongs to an ethnic minority with deep-rooted traditions. As modernity encroaches upon the indigenous community, these traditions get intruded, and the identities are inevitably transformed and reshaped. Director Peng Fei Song skillfully integrates local rituals and folklores to depict how a left-behind community grapples with the rapid development in China.