The Taste of Mango

Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams’s debut feature 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. Flowing through time and generations, Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past. What emerges is a by turns difficult and jubilant exploration of the ever-changing nature of inheritance, and the ways in which we both hurt and protect the ones we love.