EXCLUSIVE: Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi ’s Silent Friend closes the Venice Film Festival competition on Friday evening as the last 2025 Golden Lion contender to be unveiled this edition.

Deadline 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.

The 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.

The film focuses on three people with a connection to the tree, living in different eras.

Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai plays a visiting neuroscientist in 2020, whose specialization is the minds of babies, but who starts an unexpected experiment wi

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