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‘Black Tea’ Trailer: First Look at Abderrahmane Sissako’s Berlinale Competition Film Unveiled by Gaumont (EXCLUSIVE)
Gaumont has unveiled the trailer for Berlinale competition title 'Black Tea,' Abderrahmane Sissako's follow-up to 2015's Oscar-nominated 'Timbuktu.'
A lushly-lensed romance drama, “Black Tea” (previously titled “ The Perfumed Hill “) tells the story of Joice, who leaves the Ivory Coast after walking out on her wedding day and sets off to start a new life in Guangzhou, China. Gaumont, which is handling international sales and French distribution rights on the film, has described it as “a timeless, universal love story between two opposite characters” and a “sensory journey” set across China, the Ivory Coast and Cape Verde. Sissako, who penned the screenplay, previous said he was inspired to tell this story after discovering a restaurant called La Colline Parfumée” (“The Perfumed Hill”) that was run by an Afro-Chinese couple.
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