The Taste of Mango, Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature documentary, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its centre are three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, grandmother, 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.

This hypnotic cinematic love letter, that flows through time and generations, probes into what her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.