Black Tea

Spoken: Mandarin, French, English, Portuguese l Subtitled: Dutch 

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 on the 27th of April and then travel on to Leuven.

Get your tickets for AFF Gent via this link

Le retour, directed by Isabelle Christiane Kouraogo will be screened as a short before the film.

Get your tickets for AFF Leuven from Cinema ZED or make a rerservation with your filmpass through this link.