Le Retour // Black Tea . #AFF24

• Official opening by the Alderman for Culture Sami Souguir.
   
• Short film: Le Retour by Isabelle Christiane Kouraogo
  (Morocco, 2021) (17 min.)
  Cast: Tracy Meud'z, Khalid Bongazzoul
  Spoken: French / Subtitled: English
  
  Salimata, a foreign student in Morocco, learns that her sick mother is dying. She wants to go home as soon as possible to see her one last time. Because she has no money for a plane ticket, she decides to hitchhike to Dakar.
   
• Main film: Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako
  (France/Mauretania/Taiwan/Ivory Coast, 2024) (110 min.)
  (BELGIAN AVANT PREMIERE!)
  Cast: Nina Mélo, Han Chang, Ke-Xi Wu, Michael Chang, Isabelle Kabano
  Spoken: Mandarin, French / Subtitled: Dutch/French
  
  Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says 'no' to everyone's surprise on her wedding day. After emigrating to China, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love, but can their relationship survive their troubled past and the prejudices of others?
  
  The film has been selected for the Official Competition of the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) 2024.
   
• Opening reception around 10:30 PM

The Afrika Film Festival Ghent is an initiative of the Africa Platform of the Ghent University Association in collaboration with De Centrale, Senegal Bantamba, KoumaLink, S-EAU-S SAHEL, HOURRA!!! Burkina Faso, and of course, the Afrika Film Festival Leuven.

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