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The Olive Tree

For generations, Alma's family has been manufacturing high-quality olive oil in Spain's Castellón region. However, shifting industrial forces have rendered the family's traditional ways commercially unsustainable, and the family has shifted its focus to mass-production poultry. Alma has not spoken to her grandfather in years. He is enveloped in sadness, and he has lost his appetite. While his sons—father Alma's and uncle—are frustrated with him, Alma understands. She realizes he has been mourning the loss of a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family uprooted and sold in order to pay off debts. (Unfortunately, this is a current reality in Castellón.) Unable to stand the prospect of her grandfather dying without seeing this heinous crime rectified, Alma embarks on a quixotic quest to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather can die in peace.

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Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Cast:

Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambrós, Manuel Cucala, Miguel Ángel Aladrén

Production:

Morena Films, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Eurimages, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales, Match Factory Productions, Movistar+, Natixis Coficiné, Olivo La Película, El, Televisión Española, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt

Country:

Germany, Spain

Duration:

96 m