
SCREENINGS
*Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Official Selection, 2019 (World Premiere)
*Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Best of the Fest, 2019
*Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (USA), Best of the Fest, 2022
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*Emirates Airways 2024/2025
*Cheltenham Film Festival, UK, September, 2024
*Smithsonian (Museum of Asian Art), USA, June 2023
*ArteEast (online, September 28—Oct. 2023)
*Fête d’Oliviers (Geneva/Zurich, September 2023)
*Tercer Cine, Honduras, (July 2023)
*The Rialto, Amsterdam, (May, 2023)
Vikalp@Prithvi, Bombay, (June, 2023)
*Screenings of Joy, Anasy, Comoros Islands/Djibouti (2023)
* Expo 2020, USA Pavilion, Dubai (2022)
*Visual Evidence, Poland (2022)
*University of Cologne, Germany (2022)
Sunaparanata Goa Center for the Arts, India (2022)
*Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (2022)
*Black Hills Film Festival (USA), Official Selection, 2022
*Palestine Museum USA, USA (2022)
*Congress Palace Square, Nouakchott, Mauritania (2022)
*Labocine (online, 2022)
*MESA Film Festival (USA, 2022)
*Tripoli Film Festival (Lebanon), Official Selection, 2021
*University of Toronto, Canada, 2021
*William & Mary College, USA, 2021
*Silk Road International Film Festival (Dublin), 2020
*Idyllwild Film Festival (USA), Finalist, Documentary Competition, 2020
*Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Official Selection, 2020
*Art of Film Festival (Bulgaria), Official Selection, 2020
*Sao Paolo Film Festival (Brazil), Official Selection, 2020
*Food Film Festival (Italy), Official Selection, 2020
*Boston Palestine Film Festival, 2020
*Toronto Food Film Festival, 2020
*Calgary Arabian Film Nights, 2020
*Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Cairo, 2020
*Art for All, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai, 2020
*Beacon Academy, Chicago, 2021
*Docutah (USA), Official Selection, 2019
*BIFED (Turkey), Official Selection, 2019
*Palestine Cinema Days (Palestine), Documentary Finalist, 2019
*Virginia Film Festival, Official Selection, 2019
Screening at Smithsonian, July 2023
Director Alia Yunis and Tercer Cine Co-Founder Laura Bermùdez, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 2023
Alia Yunis and R. Benedito Ferrão, Sunaparanata Goa Center for the Arts Screening, 2022
Palestine Film Festival Amsterdam, Rialto Theatre, 2023 Photo by Suzanne Blanchard.
Bombay, Curated by Anand Patwardan
Screenings of Joy, Comoros Islands, May 2023. Photo courtesy of Anasy Films.
aWards and selections
Toronto Food Film Fest
Official Selection 2020
Boston Palestine Film Festival
Official Selection 2020
About the film
Sometimes our trees know best…
This is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled relationship between the people of Mediterranean and their olive trees. Her journey takes her to unexpected places--including home--as an increasingly diverse cast of characters get involved in unraveling this tale.
It is a complicated romance that is constantly evolving in a region that includes some of the poorest and most conflicted areas of Europe and the Middle East.
The search for place sometimes is answered by the keeper of our hearts and secrets, the olive tree

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
THE Crew
Alia Yunis
Director/producer
Jaime Estrada-Torres
Producer/editor