Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival - Sundance Kids
"Andrade serves up an enticing dramedy that wholeheartedly celebrates the potential for multicultural cuisine to unite people from distinctly different traditions, even in the face of determined opposition."
- HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Justin Lowe
Directed by
Fernando Grostein Andrade
Starring
Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things), Seu Jorge (City of God and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), Dagmara Dominczyk(Succession), and Arian Moayed (Succession)
Available on Demand and Digital
April 17th, 2020
The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid with a blog from Brooklyn just prefers, well, Abe. Abe, a foodie who loves to cook, has never had a birthday dinner without a fight about politics and this year, on his 12th birthday, things couldn't have been much worse. Feeling hungry and dispirited Abe sneaks away to a late-night food festival and chances upon the "Mix It Up" Pop-Up run by Chico, an Afro-Brazilian chef from Bahia, who quit the high-end restaurant world to bring his special brand of fusion cuisine to the streets. When Amir and Rebecca, Abe's parents, sign him up for a lame summer cooking camp, Abe escapes to seek mentorship from Chico to learn the ropes of a busy kitchen, and soon wonders if these new skills can help him fuse the foods from his complex background.
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