Episode
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Director(s):
DE GERLACHE (HENRI), D'YVOIRE (CHRISTOPHE)
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Producer(s):
ARTE GEIE, CAMERA LUCIDA PRODUCTIONS
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2017
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
A sycamore fig tree is the motionless witness of orthodox rites In Ethiopia while a giant banyan covers multiple hectares in India. The two trees are close cousins; they both have become sacred and carry men’s hopes.
In northern Ethiopia – at the heart of the legendary city of Aksoum – a sycamore fig tree has been sitting on the central plaza all while watching over the inhabitants for about two hundred years. It was revered as a god long ago, now it is an immovable witness to the orthodox rites of men – not far from the chapel where the Ark of the Covenant supposedly lies.
4000 km East – in the Punjab state in northern India – the inhabitants of a small village called Cholti Kheri worship an extraordinary tree. A banyan fig tree – also called “the Sage” – is able to develop itself into a gigantic tree to cover multiple hectares by resurrecting itself continuously.