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Original name: Black Tea
English name: Black Tea
Year: 2023
Run time: 110 minutes
Language: Mandarin, French, English, Portuguese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France, Mauritania, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Ivory Coast
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Producers: David Gauquié, Julien Derys, Denis Freyd, Kessen Fatoumata Tall, Jean-Luc Ormières, Charles S. Cohen
Cast: Nina Melo, Han Chang, Ke-Xi Wu, Michael Chang, Huang Lu
Screenplay: Kessen Fatoumata Tall, Abderrahmane Sissako
Cinematographer: Aymerick Pilarski
Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
Sound Designer: Carlo Thoss
Music Composer: Armand Amar
Costume Designer: Annie Melza Tiburce
Production Designer: Véronique Sacrez
Production Company: Cinéfrance Studios
World Sales: Gaumont
Born in Mauritania in 1961, he grew up in Mali. He went to the Soviet Union to study filmmaking at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow where he made his first short films.
After saying no on her wedding day, Aya leaves the Ivory Coast for a new life in the buzzing “Chocolate City” in Guangzhou, China. In this district where the African diaspora meets Chinese culture, she gets hired in a tea boutique owned by Cai, a Chinese man. In the secrecy of the back shop, Cai decides to initiate Aya to the tea ceremony. Through the teaching of this ancient art, their relationship slowly turns into tender love. But for their burgeoning passion to lean on trust, they must let go of their burdens and face their past.
