زﯾﺗون / Zaytūn

Filmforum, Germany / Algerien 2024, 24 Min., arab. OV, engl. st

People bag and sell olives at a stall in a busy Algerian market. An elderly woman harvests the fruit on a lonely mountainside. Olives are continually pressed and bottled in an oil mill. These closely observed and precisely edited moments of manual labour all revolve around the olive, depicting a routine that tells of the long connection between plants and humans.

Director Zacharias Zitouni