Documentary
In her debut feature documentary, a cinematic love letter spanning time and generations, Chloe Abrahams probes at raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.
The Taste of Mango centres three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and Abrahams herself. Their intertwined stories, both difficult and jubilant, testify to the ever-changing nature of inheritance and the ways in which we both hurt and protect the ones we love.
An urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love, and a frank look at the far-reaching effects of inter-generational abuse, The Taste of Mango is the winner of Best Debut Director at the BIFAs 2023 and the Best Documentary Audience Award at BFI London Film Festival 2023.