Tea Time takes us through a rite of friendship and shows the importance of traditions and celebrations and how rituals can help life make sense. The rite of Tea Time allows us to enter a female private space, from which life is interpreted. Around the table, intimate and universal themes intersect and are analyzed from the particular perspective of elderly women who look at the world through the lens of their conservative backgrounds, and who have been forced to adapt.
As a granddaughter of one of the characters, I have been observing this monthly rite since childhood, and I have always seen the women in the same way: They have never aged. I'm interested in portraying this new way of living old age -- in which new possibilities arise, though inevitably, they may be the last ones.
—Maite Alberdi, Director