The Olive Harvest (2003)

Original title

موسم الزيتون

Directed by

Hanna Elias

Genre

drama

Country

Palestine, United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Palestinian family prepares for the olive harvest season. The story follows their daily lives and the difficult choices they face.

tendercontemplativeearthybittersweetslow-pacedintimategroundedevocative

What happens

The Olive Harvest (Arabic: موسم الزيتون, romanized: mawsim az-zaytūni) is a 2003 Palestinian film directed by Hanna Elias. It won the "Best Arab film" award for 2003 at the Cairo International Film Festival, and it was Palestine's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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