The Olive Tree (Spanish: El olivo) is a 2016 drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and written by Paul Laverty starring Anna Castillo alongside Javier Gutiérrez and Pep Ambròs.

[2][3] Alma is a 20-year-old girl and adores her grandfather, a man who has not spoken for years.

When the elderly man also refuses to eat, the girl decides to recover the millenary tree that the family sold against his will.

In order to succeed, she needs to count on her uncle, a victim of the crisis, her friend Rafa, and her whole town to help her.

[6] Jonathan Holland of The Hollywood Reporter underscored the film to be "a feel-good combination of angry and tender".