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Silent Friend
Fri
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Fri 19 Jun 7:45 PM
Bangalow A&I Hall
General Admission
June
The extraordinary new drama by one of Europe’s most original filmmakers, Ildiko Enyedi - winner of six awards at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives as they are transformed by
the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature.
2020, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, exploring the mind of babies, begins an unexpected experiment with the old tree.
1972, a young student is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium.
1908, the university’s first female student discovers, through the lens of photography, sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants.
Told in three separate and yet connected timelines, writer/director Ildiko Enyedi (On Body and Soul, The Story Of My Wife) turns us away from the chaos of the human realm to the subtle, enduring majesty of the natural world, as the ancient ginkgo tree brings us closer to what it means to be human.
“A true original. One of those cinematic events that, once seen, won’t be easily forgotten.” Rogertbert.com
Winner FIPRESCI Award, Best Young Actor Award and four more awards, 2025 Venice Film Festival
In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives as they are transformed by
the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature.
2020, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, exploring the mind of babies, begins an unexpected experiment with the old tree.
1972, a young student is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium.
1908, the university’s first female student discovers, through the lens of photography, sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants.
Told in three separate and yet connected timelines, writer/director Ildiko Enyedi (On Body and Soul, The Story Of My Wife) turns us away from the chaos of the human realm to the subtle, enduring majesty of the natural world, as the ancient ginkgo tree brings us closer to what it means to be human.
“A true original. One of those cinematic events that, once seen, won’t be easily forgotten.” Rogertbert.com
Winner FIPRESCI Award, Best Young Actor Award and four more awards, 2025 Venice Film Festival