THE SILENCE OF THE BANANA TREES

INFO

Director

Eneos Çarka

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

24’

Year

2022

Nationality

Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Albania

SYNOPSIS

Mihály has filled his house in a leafy suburb of Budapest with artworks made by his daughter Réka to whom he hasn’t spoken in years regardless of the fact that she has a soft spot in his heart. The distance is even more difficult because she suffers from a serious illness. At his home, where he and his family grew up, he delves into a reservoir of tangible memories: vacation slides, letters, videotapes, and children’s drawings. The film acts as a go-between in an attempt to unite the father and 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.

STILLS

CREDITS

Director

Eneos Çarka

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

24′

Nationality

Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Albania

Cast

Mihály Fekete
Réka Fekete

Editing

Eneos Çarka

Sound recording

Eneos Çarka

DOP

Eneos Çarka
Małgorzata Rabczuk
Daniel Angarita

Sound design & mixing

Sangam Panta
Márk Puszta

Music

Miklós Szilvester

Visual Effects

Ádám Endrödi

Poster & Title Design

Stivi Imami

Production

DocNomads

Post-Production Supervisor

Levente Pap

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

2022
World Premiere
35. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
2022
Official Selection
63. Festival dei Popoli
2023
WINNER TENK AWARD
5. FIPADOC - Festival International Documentary Cinema
2023 - OSCAR ® / EFA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
15. Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
2023
Official Selection
20. IndieLisboa International Film Festival
2023 - EFA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
19. ZagrebDox
2023 - OSCAR ® QUALIFYING
Canadian Premiere
30. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
2023
Official Selection
17. Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna
2023
Czech Premiere
63. Zlín International Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
6. Ekrani I Artit Festival
2023
Official Selection
19. FEST - New Directors New Films Festival
2023 - OSCAR ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
44. Durban International Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
1. Synchro Film Festival
2023
Turkish Premiere
16. Documentarist Istanbul Film Festival
2023
Official Premiere
4. Vertigo International Short Film Festival
2023
Best Short Doc
18. Sole Luna Doc Film Festival
2023 - EFA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
22. Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival
2023 - OSCAR ® QUALIFYING, EFA ® QUALIFYING
International Federation of Film Critics Award
46. Drama International Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
4. i-Fest International Film Fest
2023
Official Selection
6. BEAST International Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
4. PLONS! International Short Documentary Film Festival
2023
Special Mention
52. Molodist Kiev International Film Festival
2023
Audience Award - Best Short Documentary
16. CinÉast Festival
2023
Official Selection
64. Thessaloniki International Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
29. Caminhos Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
20. Verzió International Documentary Film Festival
2023
Official Selection
23. PÖFF Shorts

Eneos Çarka

Director's Picture - Eneos Çarka

BIO

Eneos Çarka 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, Festival dei Popoli, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin in Musée du Louvre, DokuFest, among many others. They often focus on character studies and deal with memory, identity, and family relations, paying particular attention to issues of representation and experimenting with various approaches to cinema.

FILMOGRAPHY

The Silence of the Banana Trees

2022

 

City of Walls

2016