Chaina

A closer look at the tea production. Chaina enter on the factories and plantations of Xiamen Tea Import & Export Company, revealing the people involved in the process of tea making.

Since the leaves harvest, the primary step of this long aged, Chinese and cultural inheritance, the film follows the hands that pick leaves, shake the bamboo-made plates and operate the heavy machines from large-scale factories.

The tea arises not only as traditional drink, but as something that is inherent and indispensable to China and keeps continuously adapting to its transformations. By the workers perspective, most of them women, the film deconstruct the production to build a portrait of what’s and who’s beside that millenary habit.