L'Olivier de Bouhlilet (Arabic: òÃÂêÃÂàèÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂçê) is a 1978 Algerian film by director Mohamed Nadir Azizi. The film is based on a radio story by Malek Haddad, rewritten by Professor Khaled Benmiloud.
Belkacem, a young unemployed man from the Saharan village of Bouhlilet, learns from a dervish that there is a water source near the village's large olive tree. After digging, Belkacem finds water, and when he informs the villagers, they take up the cause and urge the municipality to install a water supply system. As soon as modernity and its tensions burst into the village, Belkacem's life is turned upside down..
Filmed in the late 1970s, the work belongs to a movement in Algerian cinema that combines social realism with mythic and symbolic elements to depict the economic and social transformations of rural communities.
Film records and partial copies are listed on archive sites and cataloging platforms. References exist to archive screenings or private collections.