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Some people speak of landscape as the earliest expression in shaping culture. Here preserving plants becomes about preserving cultural identity. In the forests of Taiwan, a man searches for endangered orchids, as a filmmaker searches for belonging. Her family name “蘭” (Lan), meaning orchid in Mandarin, turns this parallel search into an exploration of preservation and finding belonging on disputed land.
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00:08To be continued...
00:08Mom...
00:10I found out...
00:11I don't even know your name.
00:17To me, you're my mother.
00:21She said, Mom, she was not a Chinese person.
00:29Hello.
00:32Hello.
00:33We have a lot of friends.
00:35We have a lot of friends.
00:38While you're alive,
00:40you're so crazy.
00:42I feel like here's a problem.
01:03My mom, if Taiwan will change later, I want to know that you know Taiwan is still here.

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