Documentary, Horror 03/16/2023 73m

The Era of Giants (2023)

"A millennial Past, a vanished Present, a Future to be imagined"

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Italian documentary illustrating the xylella virus devastation of the olive-growing flora in Apulia by the xylella virus. In Apulia, a region in south-eastern Italy, the most serious botanical pandemic of the century is underway: a quarantine bacterium, Xylella Fastidiosa, is killing millions of olive trees. Disrupting landscape, economy and human relations. The Era of Giants narrates Giuseppe’s journey to his father’s land, in the Plain of the Monumental Olive Trees, where the epidemic is imminent. He will have to explain to the old farmer how their lives will be disrupted by this invisible bacterium, hitherto unknown in Italy.

Lorenzo Conte

Director

Davide Barletti

Director

Stefano Martella

Writer

Davide Barletti

Writer