National Tree Week: Silent Friend (preview screening)

Dir: Ildikó Enyedi, 2025, Germany/France/Hungary, 147 minutes, Lang: German/ English/ Cantonese with English subtitles, Cert: 18 (CTBA) Thu 26 November // 19:00 Tickets: £6 Join us for a special preview screening of Silent Friend to celebrate National Tree Week. Ildikó Enyedi, whose super dreamy On Body and Soul won the Golden Bear at the 2017 Berlinale and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best International Feature Film, returns with a century-spanning triptych that moves from 1908 to the early months of the pandemic, unfolding around an ancient ginkgo in the botanical garden of Marburg University, the fixed witness to a century’s worth of passing faces. From a young woman forcing her way into the male-dominated scientific establishment at the dawn of the 20th century, to idealistic lovers in the politically turbulent 1970s, Enyedi considers how consciousness itself is historically situated, mapping the incremental rewiring of how people think and connect over time. Tony Leung a