Chloe Abrahams
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.
winner – British Independent Film Awards – Best Debut Director
Festival Screenings
True/False Film Festival (USA)
First Look (USA)
Austin Asian American Film Festival (USA)
BlackStar (USA)
DokuFest, International Feature Dox Competition (Kosovo)
New/Next Film Fest (USA)
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (USA)
Women Make Waves Film Festival (Taiwan)
BFI London Film Festival, Grierson Award Nominee (UK)
winner – Audience Award for Best Documentary
Folkestone Doc Fest (UK)
Indie Memphis, Departures Competition (USA)
winner – Audience Award for Best Departures Feature
New Orleans Film Festival, Documentary Competition (USA)
San Diego Asian Film Festival (USA)
Mental Health Film Festival Singapore (Singapore)
Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival (Canada)
Aesthetica Film Festival, Feature Documentary Competition (UK)
This Human World, Up and Coming Competition (Austria)
Press
Simran Hans' #1 True/False film
“A bright seam of joy runs through Chloe Abrahams’s engrossing first feature”
- SIGHT AND SOUND (print, May 2023 and October 2023)
★★★★ The Evening Standard: “a bittersweet and frank look at the impact of inter-generational abuse, the culture of silence and women coming to terms with their own history”
"...an astonishing piece of non-fiction filmmaking...gorgeously nuanced and textured"
"there are evocations of Kirsten Johnson and Agnès Varda in Abrahams’s collage-like approach"
"...a powerful love letter...a reverberant profile in hope."
"visceral, dreamlike"
"one of the strongest debut features in this early year"
"exquisite...The Taste of Mango communicates an enormous sense of love and generosity throughout"
"fearless...masterful"
"A delicate family portrait about unconditional love, resolve and hope…Lyrical and heartbreaking."
"every one of Abrahams' storytelling choices pays off beautifully"
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