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/Mit
Nina Mélo
Ke-Xi Wu
Han Chang
Szenario
Abderrahmane Sissako
Kessen Tall
Bild
Aymerick Pilarski
Ton
Nicolas Leroy
Musik
Steve Bouyer
Pascal Mayer / Armand Amar
Produktion
Red Lion
Archipel 35
Arte France Cinéma
Cinéfrance Studios
Dune Vision
House on Fire International
Vorführungen
Daten
Stunde
Ort
Sprache
Untertitel
Screening
Freitag 08 März 2024
20:30
Ciné Utopia
Chinesisch, Französisch, Englisch
Englisch, Deutsch
Public Screening
Freitag 08 März 2024
20:30
Lieux :Ciné Utopia
Audio :
Chinesisch, Französisch, Englisch
Untertitel :Englisch, Deutsch
Screening :Public Screening
Trailer und Fotos
Black Tea (Hong Cha) - Bande-Annonce
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.
