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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Anna Castillo
Alma
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Pep Ambrós
Rafa
Javier Gutiérrez
Alcachofa
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Pep Ambròs
Rafa
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Manuel Cucala
Ramón
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Miguel Ángel Aladrén
Luis
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Carme Pla
Vanessa
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Ana Isabel Mena
Sole
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María Romero
Wiki
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Adelle
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Janina Agnes Schröder
Sophie
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Cris Blanco
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Icíar Bollaín Director · Paul Laverty Screenplay Pascal Gaigne Composer
Worldwide gross $1.9M · United States release March 6, 2016 · Produced in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Spain
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,900,000
Production
Morena Films
Production
The Match Factory
Production
Movistar+
Production
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
Production
Eurimages
Production
FFA
Production
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Production
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales
Production
Match Factory Productions
Production
Natixis Coficiné
Production
Olivo La Película, El
Production
Televisión Española
Production
Belgium · Canada · France · Germany · Spain
Produced in
Languages
Original title
El Olivo
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
German · Spanish
Release dates
United States · March 6, 2016
Premiere · Miami International Film Festival
Spain · May 6, 2016
Theatrical
Austria
September 2, 2016 · Digital
Finland
July 7, 2017 · Theatrical
France
July 13, 2016 · Theatrical
Germany
June 26, 2016 · Premiere · Munich International Film Festival
August 25, 2016 · Theatrical
Greece
June 2, 2016 · Theatrical
November 8, 2016 · Physical · DVD
Italy
May 20, 2017 · Theatrical
Netherlands
July 28, 2016 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
March 17, 2017 · Theatrical
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