🌿 Winner of the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival Enyedi Ildikó's latest spiritual masterpiece
🌿 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai makes his European film debut
🌿 Winner of six awards at the Venice Film Festival, including the FIPRESCI Prize and the Mascheroni Award
🌿 Winner of the Silver Hugo for Best Cinematography at the Chicago International Film Festival
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.
2020, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, exploring the mind of babies, begins an unexpected experiment with the old tree.
1972, a young student is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium.
1908, the university’s first female student discovers, through the lens of photography, sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants.
We follow their clumsy, awkward attempts to connect — each one of them deeply rooted in their own present - as they are transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature. The ancient ginkgo tree brings us closer to what it means to be human — to our longing to belong.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai , Luna Wedler , Enzo Brumm , Sylvester Groth , Martin Wuttke , Johannes Hegemann , Rainer Bock & Léa Seydoux
 | About the Director Ildiko Enyedi, awards winning and Oscar nominated director, started her career as a concept and media artist. Her first feature film, My XX. Century won the Golden Camera for best debut in Cannes, Magic Hunter competed in Venice, followed by Tamas and Juli (Venice special screening) and Simon the Magician (Locarno, special prize). After a long absence, while she made shorts and worked with HBO, she returned to feature films with On Body. | |