On the day of its world premiere on Friday, Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi's film, 'Silent friend', won four awards at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, the Hungarian National Film Institute told MTI on Friday.
The film won the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) award, which was given to the best film in the competition program. It also won the Interfilm award, which has been presented for 14 years to promote interfaith dialogue. The student jury awarded the film for its outstanding artistic value, visual world, and unique directorial vision. It also received the Green Drop Award, which recognizes films that promote the values of ecology and sustainability.
Ildikó Enyedi's new film, 'Silent Friend', draws a sensitive and philosophical parallel between the relationship between plants and humans. The film tells three stories: three tentative encounters between humans and plants, when these two radically different species truly connect for a moment.
The male lead in the film is Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, who was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Other major roles are played by Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Léa Seydoux, Johannes Hegemann, Sylvester Groth, Rainer Bock, and Martin Wuttke, among others.
The total budget for Silent Friend, a German-French-Hungarian co-production, is EUR 10.5 million. The production is scheduled to be released in cinemas across Europe in the first half of 2026.
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