SOME WITNESSES OUTLIVE EVERYTHING.

A 2020s neuroscientist, a 1970s scholar, and a 1900s student explore the hidden secrets of the natural world, connected across time and space by a majestic tree that bears witness to their lives.

World premiering in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won six awards. A rapturous, spellbinding epic featuring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux, From Ildikó Enyedi, whose "On Body and Soul" received an Academy Award nomination. Enyedi wrote the present-day role specifically for Leungi, drawing him to Germany for a production he has called one of the most rigorous of his career. At the time of its launch on Letterboxd Video Store, "Silent Friend" ranked in the Top 25 films of the year so far on Letterboxd.

Languages: English, German, and Cantonese. English closed captions available for the full film; English subtitles for the German, and Cantonese dialogue are additionally burnt in and cannot be turned off.