• Director(s):

    DE GERLACHE (HENRI), D'YVOIRE (CHRISTOPHE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, CAMERA LUCIDA PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2017

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • 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.