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Oscar-Nominated ‘Timbuktu’ Director Abderrahmane Sissako on Being ‘Free to Dream’ in Berlin Competition Romantic Drama ‘Black Tea’
The Oscar nominee will compete for the Golden Bear with his melancholic romantic drama about a woman who leaves Ivory Coast for a new life in China.
Oscar nominee Abderrahmane Sissako(“ Timbuktu ”) returns to the screen for the first time in nearly a decade with his latest feature, “Black Tea,” a lushly lensed romantic drama about a love spanning cultural divides that world premieres Feb. 21 in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. In a memorable scene from that film, which won the FIPRESCI award after premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, a Chinese merchant dines with his African girlfriend before launching into a karaoke set. It was a small snapshot of greater changes that were taking shape across the continent, foreshadowing China’s growing influence in Africa and highlighting how globalization would not only upend trade and geopolitics, but the ways in which cultures intermingle.
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