Premiered July 27, 2015
Ritual is often associated with powerful and impersonal institutions, but for five Chilean women, ritual centers on a monthly gathering that has sustained them through 60 years of personal and societal change. Tea Time is a charming and poignant look at how a seemingly mundane routine of tea and pastries has helped the well-heeled participants commemorate life's joys and cope with infidelity, illness and death. A celebration of the small things that help us endure, Tea Time, filmed over five years, illuminates a beautiful paradox: As familiar worlds slip away, friendships grow ever stronger and more profound.
Tea Time, an Official Selection of the 2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), is a co-production of Micromundo Producciones E.I.R.L. and ITVS International, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Bringing Friends Together
An introduction to tea time and the monthly ritual of five Chilean woman. Continue
Chi, Chi, Chi
An introduction to tea time and the monthly ritual of five Chilean woman. Continue
A Woman's Place
The women discuss what it meant to be a woman and a wife in their younger years. Continue
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