The Silence Of The Banana Trees

Program:

International Competition

Year:

2022

Country:

Hungary, Belgium, Portugal, Albania

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

24ʼ

Upset by his daughter Réka’s illness and her decision to keep her distance from the family, seventy-something Mihály engulfs in the memories he created with her. At his home in a leafy suburb of Budapest, where he and his family grew up, he draws from a reservoir of tangible memories: vacation slides, letters, videotapes and children’s drawings. As he nourishes them in the same way he nurtures his banana trees, they become alive, magical, and transcendental without ever breaking their silence. The film eventually becomes a go-between in an attempt to restore a lost connection with his daughter, who lives in Amsterdam . Abstract imagery and patient observations evoke a sense of transience that carries the viewer off in a maelstrom of recollections and feelings that lead to the gripping finale.

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Eneos Çarka

Eneos is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. He graduated from DocNomads Masters on Creative Documentary and he is currently a PhD student and Annenberg Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. His films have screened at numerous festivals, galleries, and cultural events such as IDFA, FIPADOC where he received Tënk Award, HotDocs, GoShort, Festival dei Popoli and more. He served as a Jury Member in the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary in 2022. In his films, Çarka often focuses on memory, identity, and family relations, experimenting with various approaches to cinema.

Filmography: Mimi (2016), City of Walls (2016), Without Water (2017), Where Are You Now? (2020), The First Few Moments of The First of January (2020), Pedro's Home (2020), A Red Ball Against a White Wall (2021), A Pigeon's Song (2021)

Creative team

Director

Eneos Carka

Screenplay

Eneos Carka

Camera

Eneos Çarka, Małgorzata Rabczuk, Daniel Angarita

Editing

Eneos Carka

Music

Miklós Szilveszter

Sound Design