Silent Friend

This engrossing and tender drama, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux, recounts three stories, over the course of a century, which are connected to and observed by a majestic tree.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Ildikó Enyedi

  • With

    Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Léa Seydoux

  • Germany-Hungary-France 2025. 147min

  • Courtesy of

    Films Boutique

  • Languages

    German, English

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Unfolding in 1908, 1972 and 2020, in the botanical garden of a medieval German university town, the trio of tales reveal how the characters’ journeys are shaped by the flora surrounding them. Oscar-nominated director Ildikó Enyedi follows On Body and Soul with an inventive and mesmerising study of humanity’s relationships to nature, and the connections that bind us.

Isabel Moir

How to book

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