Wednesday April 18th 2018

Spain 2016  100 minutes
Director: Iciar Bollain
Starring: Anna Castillo, Manuel Cucala, Javier Gutierrez

20 year old Alma is the youngest member of a hardworking farming family in rural Spain. She has always been very close to her grandfather, who has gone into depressive decline since his son sold their 2000 year old olive tree to a foreign buyer. The tree has been removed and replaced by a cairn of stones, which the old man visits and treats as a form of shrine. Against all the odds, Alma decides to try and find the tree, enlisting the help of a close friend and her uncle. The trio embark on a journey which has surprising consequences for all concerned. One critic has described it as a ‘charmingly hopeful film that has faith in the younger generation’.