“Mesmerizing … Unforgettable … the kind of film that will make you start talking to your plants.”
—Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine

“With an outlook disarmingly poised between the dreamy and the matter-of-fact, it presents a different way of seeing, and indeed feeling, the world around us, and merely invites its audience to follow along.”
—Guy Lodge, Variety

The highly acclaimed new feature from Hungarian master Ildikó Enyedi stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Léa Seydoux, Luna Wedler and a very special tree — yes, you read that right — in a film unlike any you’ve seen before.

On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories. In 1908, the university’s first female student gains admission into the prestigious botany department, confronting the sexism of both professors and peers.

In 1972, amidst counterculture movements, a reserved student finds his attention captured by a fellow housemate and the geranium plant she studies. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong secures the help of a renowned botanist for an experiment on the old ginkgo tree.