Interviews With "Silent Friend" Star Tony Leung Chiu-wai & Filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"Silent Friend" is a 2025 historical drama film written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Léa Seydoux, Luna Wedler, Sylvester Groth, and Martin Wuttke. It follows a single ginkgo tree through three loosely connected stories spanning different eras: 1908, 1972, and 2020, set in the old university town of Marburg, Germany. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Wedler. Enyedi and Leung were both kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from 1-2 Special. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:05.0	Mom!
0:06.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:08.0	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:14.0	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.0	Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:22.6	So it's phones down, forks up.
0:25.6	Hello Fresh, bring back dinner time.
0:27.6	Hello.
0:28.6	Listen up.
0:30.6	Huh? That means you.
0:31.6	Yes, you. We know you're pointing at yourself.
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1:19.6	but have no common language?
1:26.1	What I want to test is not so complex.
1:30.3	What if they observe us the same way we observe them?
1:38.3	What for an experiment plan for then?
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1:45.0	So, will you...
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