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THE OLIVE TREE AND THE BAOBAB

L'ULIVO E IL BAOBAB

By Serena PORTA

DRAKA DISTRIBUTION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, ITALY / PROD

Environmental - Completed 2023

Festival del Cinema Europeo Lecce 2024

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Bif&St Bari International Film & Tv Festival 2025

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Environmental, Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Director(s)
- Serena PORTA
- Writer(s)
- Corrado AZZOLLINI, Daniele ZOVI
- Cast
- Russell CROWE
- Producer(s)
- Corrado AZZOLLINI (Draka Production)
- Synopsis
- The baobabs of Africa and the olive trees of Southern Italy: what connects these two great trees, part of such distant worlds and cultures? An ancestral symbiosis has kept them intertwined with man and his history for millennia; a fabric of religious beliefs and legends, keeps them at the center of ancient symbols and rituals; their fruits richness and the thousand uses that communities have been able to find in the shadow of their mighty branches make them precious and irreplaceable. Today, even their suffering and their progressive decay unites them tragically, victims of climate change caused by that man who has always fed on them.
  Russel Crowe’s evocative narration leads us to discover the red thread that runs between these “silent masters” and the two continents that originally hosted them: Africa and Europe. Magnificent witnesses to stories of pain and resilience, fragility and power, these large trees shout together an environmental alarm which can no longer be ignored.