Tea Movies

A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.

Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger,...

The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open...

During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences...

A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an...

A man finds a way to travel to another dimension. It's beautiful and fascinating there...but not everything is what it seems.

In Acadie, the only “real” tea is King Cole, blended in New Brunswick for the past 100 years. Traditionally drunk with a spot of...

On a quiet afternoon an elderly woman prepares some afternoon tea for her and her husband. This short film was made on a single Super-8 cartridge,...

A short documentary about the tea drinking culture in the UK and the industry behind it.

The rise of Soda Shops in Utah and the culture surrounding them.

On the morning of his wife’s funeral, an elderly, retired, industrial tycoon awakens to discover that there is more than one corpse on his...

A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety...

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the...

A depressed man is told to make a cup of tea by his therapist.

In a world full of lemon drizzle, gooseberry jam, salted caramel and a tea river one woman just wants a plain biscuit!

Two friends share a light-hearted conversation over tea until the exchange takes a bizarre turn.

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.