The Era of Giants (2023)

Overview : 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.

Release Date : March 16, 2023

Runtime : 73m

Genre : Documentary, Horror  

Companies : Dinamo Film

Countries : Italy

Keywords : climate change, end of the world, olive, destruction of earth, apulia, italy