Minari: Flourishing Where We're Planted (Jeremiah 29:5-7)

Jacob moves his Korean-American family to rural Arkansas to farm. His mother-in-law brings minari seeds—a Korean herb that grows anywhere, in any conditions. It's considered weeds in America, but to Koreans it's medicine, food, home. Jeremiah writes to exiles: Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. The family struggles between assimilation and identity, success and survival, American dreams and Korean roots. The minari thrives by the creek, neither fully domesticated nor wild. The film suggests that flourishing in exile means neither abandoning who you are nor refusing where you are—but finding the places where your particular gifts can grow.