Winner of the 2023 British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Feature 
Documentary THE TASTE OF MANGO, the debut 
feature from filmmaker and video artist Chloe Abrahams (Trust Me), 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. Their stories, by turns difficult and jubilant, testify to the entangled and ever-changing nature of inheritance, and the ways in which we both hurt and 
protect the ones we love. Director Chloe Abrahams joins us for a insightful conversation on her intimate and beautifully rendered ode to friendship, beauty, memories lost, generational relationships and how to hold on to the things that matter most.
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About the filmmaker – Chloe Abrahams is a Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker. Using methods drawn from both documentary and fiction practices, she investigates the therapeutic potential of the confessional, culminating in visceral work spanning moving image, sound, writing and performance. Chloe’s debut non-fiction film, The Taste of Mango, premiered at True/False 2023 where it was named the #1 film by Sight & Sound. The film went on to win the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival, followed by the BIFA for Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary. In 2020 Chloe was awarded the John Brabourne Award and has three times been shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2018, 2019, 2022). She had her first solo exhibition at OVADA (2014), and has since been selected for exhibitions worldwide, including The London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery 2022. Previously, Chloe worked as the Marketing Coordinator for documentary distributor Dogwoof, responsible for the execution of all UK theatrical campaigns, and recently completed a Master’s in Moving Image at the Royal College of Art where she was nominated for the HIGH Prize for Excellence.
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“The sum effect is at once densely textured and appealingly direct, its experimental aspects only serving to communicate more vividly the bonds tested but also strengthened by great adversity.” – Dennis Harvey, Variety
“Abrahams’s film-making language has a supple informality and immediacy, revealing what you might call the unofficial drama of family life, the guilt and pain which she has brought out of the shadows.” – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
“The Taste of Mango is most notable for making a compelling argument for nonfiction cinema as therapy.” – Clara Cuccaro, In Review Online
“Abrahams’ film reaffirms the strength of generational bonds and champions the desire of the new generation to question and provoke and demand answers.” – Tom Davidson, London Evening Standard
“Patriarchal violence and rape culture have impacted this family deeply, but it’s a genuine honour to be privy to this filmic act of reconciliation and hope.” – Isy Santini, The List