Important Dates
Cinema Africa 2024/25
Monday, 09.12.2024, 8 pm
Cineplex Bayreuth, Hindenburgstraße 2, 95445 Bayreuth
Warm Invitation to the latest instalment of our CINEMA AFRICA film festival!
Black Tea
by Abderrahmane Sissako
(French feature film, 2024 OV: Mandarin, French, English, with English subtitles, 111 Min.)
Black Tea is a 2024 romantic drama film co-written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. The film starring Nina Mélo and Chang Han is about an Ivorian woman in her 30s who immigrates to China and falls in love with a 45 year old Chinese man.
The international co-production between France, Mauritania, Luxembourg, Taiwan and Ivory Coast was selected in the Competition at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival held from 15 to 25 February 2024, where it competed for the Golden Bear.
Synopsis: 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 Chinese man who is 45 years old. They fall in love, but their relationship faces challenges from their history and the bias of others.