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In this hypnotically cinematic love letter flowing through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.

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Screenings

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

UK THEATRICAL RELEASE

IN CINEMAS NOW

US THEATRICAL RELEASE

IN THEATERS FROM DECEMBER 4

New York: December 4–10 @ DCTV's Firehouse

Q&As at the following screenings:

Wednesday Dec 4, 7pm

Saturday Dec 7, 5pm

Sunday Dec 8, 5pm

 

LA: December 6–12 @ Laemmle Noho 7

Q&A on Friday Dec 6

US BROADCAST RELEASE ON POV

28th APRIL 2025

Press

PRESS

★★★★★

"With patience and a willingness to listen, Abrahams is able to capture the anger, resentment and grief that has built up over the years, but also the enduring love, longing and even understanding that still exists"

- THE LIST

★★★★

"a lucid, emotionally honest account of trauma... quietly powerful"

- PETER BRADSHAW, THE GUARDIAN

★★★★

"reaffirms the strength of generational bonds and champions the desire of the new generation to question and provoke and demand answers"

- THE EVENING STANDARD

★★★★

"a celebration of the love shared between the three generations"

- THE UP COMING

★★★★

"Powerfully poetic, the film showcases an artist’s view of the ever-changing nature of the internal world... nuanced in scope, but also universal in tone"

- FLICKERING MYTH

★★★★

"packs a powerful punch"

- DOG AND WOLF

 

#1 True/False film

"a bright seam of joy runs through Abrahams' engrossing first feature"

- SIGHT AND SOUND (print, May & October 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 testament to sensory filmmaking, where the act of looking evokes smell and taste"

- CINEUROPA

 

"...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

"striking...a moving, lyrical and haunting film"

- HOLLAND FOCUS

 

"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 

Team

TEAM

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Chloe Abrahams

director, producer, writer, editor, cinematographer

Chloe Abrahams is a Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker. Using methods drawn from both documentary and fiction practices, she investigates the therapeutic potential of the confessional, culminating in visceral work spanning moving image, sound, writing and performance. Chloe’s debut non-fiction film, The Taste of Mango, premiered at True/False 2023 where it was named the #1 film by Sight & Sound. The film went on to win the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival, followed by the BIFA for Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary.


In 2020 Chloe was awarded the John Brabourne Award and has three times been shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2018, 2019, 2022). She had her first solo exhibition at OVADA (2014), and has since been selected for exhibitions worldwide, including The London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery 2022.
Previously, Chloe worked as the Marketing Coordinator for documentary distributor Dogwoof, responsible for the execution of all UK theatrical campaigns, and recently completed a Master’s in Moving Image at the Royal College of Art, where she was nominated for the HIGH Prize for Excellence.

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Elliott Whitton

producer

Elliott Whitton is the SVP of Fit Via Vi and has worked as an executive on a range of celebrated films, including the Academy Award-nominated Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and Kogonada's After Yang with A24. He is an Executive Producer on Bassam Tariq's BAFTA-nominated Mogul Mowgli, starring Riz Ahmed, Daina O. Pusic's upcoming A24 feature Tuesday, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Satter's Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, and Justin Kurzel's Morning, starring Laura Dern and Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Diane Quon

executive producer

 

Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive at NBC and Paramount Pictures in LA before moving back to her hometown of Chicago. Diane has produced many documentaries including: Oscar- and Emmy-nominated, Peabody award-winning film, Minding the Gap (Hulu, POV); The Dilemma of Desire (Showtime); Emmy-nominated Finding Yingying (MTVDocs); For the Left Hand (PBS); Wuhan Wuhan (POV); the 2022 Oscar-shortlisted Bad Axe (IFC FILMS) and Surf Nation (Mountainfilm 2022). She is producing the upcoming
documentaries: Breaking the News, Sam and Omar Project, and The Futurists. Diane is also developing a fiction film based on a New York Times bestseller. Diane is an AMPAS member, a recipient of the Cinereach Producer Award, and is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and Film Independent Fellow.

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Kellen Quinn

executive producer

 

Kellen Quinn is an Oscar-nominated producer whose credits include Garrett Bradley's Time (Oscar nominated; Sundance 2020 winner of Best Director, US Documentary Competition), Luke Lorentzen's A Still Small Voice (Sundance 2023 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition) and Midnight Family (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2019 winner of Special Jury Award for Cinematography, US Documentary Competition), Noah Hutton’s In Silico (DOC NYC 2020), Daniel Hymanson’s So Late So Soon (True/False 2020) and Viktor Jakovleski's Brimstone & Glory (True/False 2017; aired on POV). Kellen was selected for DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class in 2020. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. In 2016, he was among six producers selected for Impact Partners’ Documentary Producers Fellowship. With Luke Lorentzen, Kellen co-founded the independent production company Hedgehog Films.

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Stella Heath Keir

editor

 

Stella Heath Keir is an editor based in London. She is drawn to urgent, unflinching and authored works. She graduated with distinction from the National Film & Television School in 2019 and was selected to attend the Berlinale Talents Editing Studio in 2020. Her work has been BAFTA, BIFA and RTS nominated. Films she's edited have premiered internationally at festivals such as Cannes; La Semaine de la Critique, Sundance, Palm Springs and Rhode Island. Closer to home, they’ve screened in competition and won awards at festivals such as the BFI LFF, EIFF and Sheffield Doc/Fest, amongst others. Creatively versatile, Stella has cut numerous shorts, both fiction and non-fiction, for broadcasters and funders such as Film4, BBC Films, BFI, and ARTE Creative. Her first drama feature film Girl by director Adura Onashile – Screen International Star of Tomorrow – premiered at Sundance 2023 in the World Cinema Competition, supported by BBC Films, BFI and Screen Scotland.

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Isidore Bethel

editor

 

Isidore Bethel is a filmmaker and educator. His directorial debut Liam received the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival’s Jury Prize in 2018 and is streaming on Tënk. His second film as director Acts of Love premiered at Hot Docs and received Tacoma’s Best Feature Award in 2021 before Here Films released it in the US in 2022. Isidore’s editing, producing, and writing work has screened at Cannes, SXSW, the Berlinale, and Sundance London and on POV, Op-Docs, the Criterion Channel, and Netflix, receiving over 30 awards, Mexican Academy, European Film Academy, and Gotham Award nominations, and IndieWire and New York Times Critic’s Picks. Support for those films has come from the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, IDA, SFFILM, Doc Society, The Whickers, Catapult, and France’s CNC and Mexico’s IMCINE film boards. Filmmaker Magazine included him among its “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020.

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