Éldi Koenedi's new film Silent Friend is a sensitive philosophical work produced as a German-French-Hungarian co-production
with the support of the Hungarian National Film Institute. Already a success at the Venice Film Festival, it is being screened in Hungarian cinemas from the end of January
Last year Silent Friend won six awards at the Venice Film Festival. The movie tells three stories of tentative encounters between humans and plants
Oh, is that okay? Then let's do it on set. The latest film from the Golden Bear winner
and Oscar-nominated director of Unbody and Soul is set in the botanical garden in Marburg, Germany
A key role is played by a distant transplanted ginkgo biloba tree
that has been observing the life around it for almost 200 years
plants, animals and humans alike