Made in/With Luxembourg
Black Tea (Hong Cha)
Abderrahmane Sissako
Follow Up
2024
110 min
France, Mauritania, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Côte d’Ivoire
Synopsis
A lush romance set between Africa and China.
On her wedding day, Aya, a young woman in her early thirties from Ivory Coast, shocks everyone by rejecting her groom. She moves to Guangzhou, China and finds a job in a tea export shop, where she meets Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. They fall in love, but their relationship faces numerous challenges. Can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?
A lush and sensory romance set between China, the Ivory Coast, and Cape Verde. In addition to its timeless love story, Black Tea also offers insight into the complexity of Chinese-African relations.
Cast/Avec
- Nina Mélo
- Ke-Xi Wu
- Han Chang
Screenplay
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Kessen Tall
Cinematographer
- Aymerick Pilarski
Sound
- Nicolas Leroy
Music
- Steve Bouyer
- Pascal Mayer / Armand Amar
Production
- Red Lion
- Archipel 35
- Arte France Cinéma
- Cinéfrance Studios
- Dune Vision
- House on Fire International
Screenings
Date
Hour
Place
Language
Subtitles
Screening
Friday 08 March 2024
8:30 pm
Ciné Utopia
Chinese, French, English
English, German
Public Screening
Friday 08 March 2024
20:30
Lieux :
Ciné Utopia
Audio :
Chinese, French, English
Subtitles :
English, German
Screening :
Public Screening
Trailer and photos
Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako is a Mauritian-born Malian film director and producer known for films which explore globalization and displacement. He studied cinema at the Federal State Film Institute in Moscow and in the 1990s settled in France. His first feature-length film, Waiting for Happiness (2002) won a FIPRESCI Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. His features Bamako (2006) and Timbuktu (2014) were widely acclaimed, with the latter selected to compete for the Palme d’Or and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
