British-Sri Lankan filmmaker and video artist Chloe Abrahams makes her feature film directorial debut with The Taste of Mango, a documentary telling the story of her family, documenting the life and struggle of her mother, her grandmother, and herself.

The Taste of Mango premiered at the 2023 True/False Film Festival, and was named the #1 film by Sight & Sound. It later screened at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival, earning the Best Documentary Audience Award. Abrahams also won the Best Debut Director for Feature Documentary Award at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards.

Release Date

Directed by Chloe Abrahams, The Taste of Mango opens in select New York theaters on December 4, 2024, and in select Los Angeles theaters on December 6, 2024.

Synopsis

The Taste of Mango, the debut feature from filmmaker and video artist Chloe Abrahams, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center 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.

Reviews

Isy Santini in a The List review gave the film a score of 5/5, writing, “Patriarchal violence and rape culture have impacted this family deeply, but it’s a genuine honour to be privy to this filmic act of reconciliation and hope.”

Tom Davidson in a London Evening Standard review gave the film a 4/5, writing, “Abrahams’ film reaffirms the strength of generational bonds and champions the desire of the new generation to question and provoke and demand answers.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for The Taste of Mango.