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THE OLIVE TREE AND THE BAOBAB

L'ULIVO E IL BAOBAB

By Serena PORTA

Documentary - Development 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH, SWAHILI
- Director(s)
- Serena PORTA
- Writer(s)
- Simone GRASSI, Luigi DIMITRI
- Producer(s)
- Corrado AZZOLLINI (Draka Production)
- Synopsis
- The thousand-year-old baobabs of Kenya and the monumental olive trees of Puglia are the iconographic symbols of two continents, Africa and Mediterranean Europe, both threatened by climate change. An incredibly high percentage of the continent’s baobabs have died in the past 20 years and researchers suspect that this phenomena is related to the climate
  change. On the other hand, in Apulia the olive trees drying rapidly and experts attribute it to Xylella. The documentary will shed light on the causes of the deaths of the giants of Africa and Southern Italy by introducing the viewer to the complex kingdom of plants. The film also documents the current and endangered ancestral practices of the Mijikenda
  of the Kenyan coast and the Apulian farmers, both guardians of a vast bio-cultural heritage. In the Mediterranean area there are examples of a spiritual relationship between man and the olive tree and the same goes for the baobab in Kenya, which is associated with myths and ceremonies. Through the stories of some of the protagonists, we will try to
  understand how the processes of globalization involve two “distant” cultures and geographic areas.
- Partners & financing
- Songlines - Documentary Institute in Eastern Africa