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Silent Friend
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SILENT FRIEND
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Venice
Film Festival, Oscar nominated director
Ildikó Enyedi’s century-spanning poetic film unfolds across three time
periods at a historic German university in Marburg. In a botanical garden in the
medieval German town, a single majestic Ginkgo biloba tree silently watches
over three different lives, in 1908, 1972 and 2020. From a young woman forcing
her way into the male-dominated scientific establishment at the dawn of the
20th century (played by Luna Wedler,
winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress at the 2025
Venice Film Festival), to idealistic lovers in the politically turbulent 1970s,
Enyedi considers how consciousness itself is historically situated, mapping the
incremental rewiring of how people think and connect over time. Tony Leung anchors the 2020 chapter
with a characteristically subtle, deeply felt performance as a visiting
neuroscientist stranded on campus during lockdown, whose attempt to measure the
tree’s electromagnetic signals—guided remotely by a French plant biologist,
played by Léa Seydoux—gradually
opens into a meditation on perception itself. (Germany, France, Hungary, 2025, 147 mins, German, English, Cantonese |
Dir. Ildikó Enyedi)


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