Black Tea

• Abderrahmane Sissako
• 111 min
• France, Mauritania, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Ivory Coast
• 2024
• Fiction

Lauded director Abderrahmane Sissako’s latest is like a cosmopolitan, contemporary In the Mood for Love and a worthy successor to Timbuktu (2014)
This exquisite, meandering, and reflective tale of friendship and forbidden love unfolds in Chocolate City – the nickname for the part of Guangzhou, China, where exiled Africans gather, live, and connect. At its center is Aya, a young woman who left her fiancé at the altar and her homeland behind for a fresh start far away. With her friends in the Africa diaspora, she shares both fleeting joys and wistful moments of nostalgia – as with Cai, her boss and a tea merchant, whose life story includes broken family ties and unhealed wounds. On the periphery is Cai’s son, who has inherited his parents’ openness to the world, as well as their quiet melancholy.


- Katarina Hedrén

• Drama
• Kärlek
• Vänskap
• Resa
• Relationer