Festival Trailer for ‘Silent Friend’ Film with Tony Leung & Luna Wedler

“I would like to find proof of what plants sense.” Film Boutique has debuted a festival promo trailer for the film titled Silent Friend, the latest mesmerizing creation by award-winning Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi. This is the best film from the 2025 Venice Film Festival and it seriously deserved to win Golden Lion – most critics agree, but the jury did not. Silent Friend is set at a university centered around a giant, old ginkgo tree. The film follows three intertwined stories at different time periods, exploring the idea of trees & plants being sentient and interacting with people. 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… This stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Luna Wedler (who won a Venice award), Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, & Léa Seydoux. I fell hard for the film – it’s an instant all-timer favorite, everything about it is magical. This trailer features some of the wonderful score, but it’s still an experience you must have in theaters – getting pulled into this beautifully alluring, entrancing story of trees & humans. // Continue Reading ›