The Raw and the Cooked
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The Raw and the Cooked

DirectorsLisa Marie Malloy, Dennis Zhou

2022
26 min
Documentary

An Indigenous Amis family hunts snails by headlight after a midnight rain on Taiwan’s eastern coast. Back home, as they butcher, clean, and cook them, family members pass on their endangered language to a younger generation and trade ghost stories that echo the fragility of inherited identities.

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