Directed with tenderness and insight by multi-award-winning filmmaker Yuqi Kang (7 BEATS PER SECOND, CIFF 2024), FRUIT IS RIPE offers an intimate, beautifully observed portrait of community, adaptation and growth. As the seasons shift, vegetables ripen and children grow, the film becomes a quiet celebration of resilience, generational bonds and the family values these newcomers cultivate in their adopted Canadian home. A story of rootedness in every sense of the word.

Cacai, a Chinese farmer-turned-internet influencer, has dedicated his life to building innovative passive solar greenhouses to withstand Alberta’s unforgiving climate. Inspired by his vision, a group of Chinese fathers joins him in pursuing sustainable farming, each bringing their hopes for the future. Over the course of a year, we meet their families, who are each as distinct as the vegetables they grow, with relationships that require just as much care and attention.