{"id":133718,"date":"2025-09-05T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133718\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:44:09","slug":"first-trailer-for-golden-lion-contender-silent-friend-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133718\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer For Golden Lion Contender ‘Silent Friend’ Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Hungarian director Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi<\/a>\u2019s Silent Friend<\/a> closes the Venice<\/a> Film Festival competition on Friday evening as the last 2025 Golden Lion contender to be unveiled this edition.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline can reveal the official trailer for the long-awaited feature revolving around an ancient ginkgo tree situated in the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tree is the silent friend of the title having stood in the spot for over a century bearing witness to countless lives played out around it. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film focuses on three people with a connection to the tree, living in different eras.<\/p>\n

\n\tHong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai<\/a> plays a visiting neuroscientist in 2020, whose specialization is the minds of babies, but who starts an unexpected experiment with the old tree.<\/p>\n

\n\tGerman actor Enzo Hermann Brumm plays a young student, who in 1972 is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe third story is set in 1908, and features Swiss actress Luna Wedler as the the university\u2019s first female student who discovers, through the lens of photography, sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film also unites Enyedi with L\u00e9a Seydoux, star of her 2021 Cannes Palme d\u2019Or contender The Story of My Wife, who makes a special appearance as a plant communication specialist.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese three different moments, chosen from the last roughly hundred years show how much and how quickly our seemingly unshaken solid sense of reality transforms,\u201d says Enyedi in her director\u2019s notes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is not just defined by our senses, it is also a cultural construct and as such, it is quite ephemeral. Our human heroes walk the same paths of the same garden, enter the buildings of the same campus but each perceive a different world. When they try to connect with the ginkgo tree, with the plants around them, they discover not only the plants but also themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEnyedi was previously in competition in Venice some 30 years ago with Magic Hunter. It was her second feature after My Twentieth Century, which won the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or for best first film in Cannes in 1989. In between times, she has also enjoyed success with Our Body and Soul, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n\tSilent Friend is lead produced by Germany\u2019s Pandora Film in co-production with Galat\u00e9e Films and Inforg-M&M Film in co-production with Rediance, ZDF\/ARTE, ARTE France CIN\u00c9MA and Allons Voir.<\/p>\n

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