Black Tea (16:00, Cinema ZED)
Wednesday 24 April, 16:00
Cinema ZED Vesalius, Andreas Vesaliusstraat 9c, 3000 Leuven
BLACK TEA
Abderrahmane Sissako / 2024 / 110 min.
Cast: Nina Melo, Han Chang, Ke-Xi Wu, Michael Chang
Gesproken: Mandarijn, Frans, Engels, Portugees
Ondertiteld: Nederlands
Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says 'no' on her wedding day to everyone's surprise after which she starts a new life in China. She finds work in the tea shop of Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. As he teaches her the ancient art of tea, their relationship slowly grows into a tender love. But can their affair survive their troubled past and the prejudices of others?
Ten years after his successful film Timbuktu (2014), Abderrahmane Sissako is making a new film, which unfolds as a story of female self-empowerment mixed with a smouldering cross-cultural love story.
The film will be screened as the opening film of the Africa Film Festival in Ghent and then travel on to Leuven.