El Olivo

Iciar Bollain, actress and award-winning director, including for Te Doy Mis Ojos (Take My Eyes) manages to surprise us once again with her latest film full of emotion and sensitivity, The Olive Tree. It tells the story of Alma, written by the brilliant Paul Laverty, screenwriter to Ken Loach among others. Alma, very attached to her grandfather who used to produce olive oil from the ancient family olive grove, decides to go to Germany find a 2000 years old olive tree that her father sold years earlier. She suspects that this is responsible for the declining health of her grandfather. She manages to convince her relatives the benefit of her improbable journey and it will surely convince you too, by its beautiful simplicity and above all the love that one carries for a grandfather. The film is both funny and tragic as well as incredibly emotional. Difficult to remain indifferent to this superb human adventure.

Flagey, Brussels Film Festival