

The Olive Tree
Never lose touch with your roots.
Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castellón at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.
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- German
- woman director
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Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Spain
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereMiami International Film Festival6 Mar 2016
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1517 Mar 2017
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT62 Sept 2016
FinlandFI
- Theatrical7 Jul 2017
FranceFR
- Theatrical13 Jul 2016
GermanyDE
- PremiereMunich International Film Festival26 Jun 2016
- Theatrical625 Aug 2016
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ2 Jun 2016
- PhysicalDVD8 Nov 2016
ItalyIT
- Theatrical20 May 2017
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical28 Jul 2016
SpainES
- Theatrical76 May 2016
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The Olive Tree was released on 6 May 2016.
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1- R8/10
Reno
10/22/2017
**Trees, the pen the earth's holding to write its fate.** Check about this film on the internet, it is definitely an under- noticed film. But decently rated, which deserve even better than that. Once you watched it, you would be surprised to know how such a beautiful tale went unnoticed. If I had a chance, I would have selected it for the Oscars to represent Spain, instead of 'Julieta'. Written by an Irish writer …
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