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The Taste of Mango

2023, UK & USA, feature non-fiction, 75 mins

Director, Producer: Chloe Abrahams

Producer: Elliott Whitton

Executive Producers: Diane Quon, Kellen Quinn, Martha Gregory, Hannah Bush Bailey, Robina Riccitiello

The Taste of Mango, Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its centre are three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and the director herself. Their stories, by turns difficult and jubilant, testify to the entangled and ever-changing nature of inheritance and the ways in which we both hurt and protect the ones we love.

Festival Screenings

Upcoming:

November 2–12, 2023: New Orleans Film Festival

Past:

March 2-5, 2023: True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri

March 17, 2023: First Look, MoMI NYC

June 24, 2023: Austin Asian American Film Festival

June 29, 2023: Amherst Bellwether Film Series, Massachusetts

August 2–6, 2023: BlackStar Film Festival

August 4–12, 2023: DokuFest, Kosovo *nominated for Best International Feature*

August 17–20, 2023: New/Next, Baltimore

August 24–27, 2023: Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Vermont

Press


Simran Hans' #1 True/False film

- SIGHT & SOUND (print, May 2023)


"...an astonishing piece of non-fiction filmmaking...gorgeously nuanced and textured"

- CRITERION CAST


"there are evocations of Kirsten Johnson and Agnès Varda in Abrahams’s collage-like approach"

- REVERSE SHOT


"...a powerful love letter...a reverberant profile in hope."  

- THE MOVEABLE FEST 


"visceral, dreamlike"

- IDA MAGAZINE


"one of the strongest debut features in this early year"

- THE FILM STAGE


"exquisite...The Taste of Mango communicates an enormous sense of love and generosity throughout"

- FILMMAKER MAGAZINE


"fearless...masterful" 

- THE MANEATER


"A delicate family portrait about unconditional love, resolve and hope…Lyrical and heartbreaking."

- SCREEN ANARCHY


"every one of Abrahams' storytelling choices pays off beautifully" 

- COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE 

Supported by:

BFI Doc Society, Sheffield Doc/Fest Meet Market, Camden North Star Fellowship, Jacob Burns Centre Creative Culture Residency, Docs Ireland Market, SFFilm, One World Media, The Film & TV Charity

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