THE TASTE OF MANGO
Director/Producer: Chloe Abrahams
Producer: Elliott Whitton
Executive Producers: Diane Quon and Kellen Quinn
WATCH TRAILER
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.
IN DISTRIBUTION: THEATRICALLY BY OSCILLOSCOPE, POV/PBS (APRIL 2025)
PRESS
"...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 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
"exquisite...The Taste of Mango communicates an enormous sense of love and generosity throughout"
- FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
"fearless...masterful"
- THE MANEATER
"lyrical and heartbreaking"
- SCREEN ANARCHY
"every one of Abrahams' storytelling choices pays off beautifully"
- COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE