Directed by
Çağla Zencirci
Guillaume Giovanetti
Frankreich
Deutschland
Luxemburg
Türkei
2018

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

Rejected by her fellow villagers, she relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest, sparking off fears and fantasies among the village women. There she crosses path with a fugitive. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her. (Festival information)

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TitleSibel
Post date
Directed by
Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Year
2018
Country
Frankreich, Deutschland, Luxemburg, Türkei

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71st Locarno Festival
The Ecumenical Jury at the 71st Locarno Festival awarded its Prize to "Sibel", directed by Guillaume Giovanetti und Çağla Zencirci. The Golden Leopard awarded by the international festival jury went to "A Land Imagined", directed by Yeo Siew Hua from Singapore.

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