Sibel

Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti : 2018

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in Kusköy, 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 who consider her disabled, 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 paths with a fugitive, a deserter from the Turkish army. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her. A new perspective comes to Sibel: for her this enigmatic character represents a contrast she has long been searching for, a breath of fresh air that whisks her far away from the stifling rules imposed by the patriarchal society in which she lives. Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti's third feature received the FIPRESCI Award and the Ecumenical Award when it premiered in competition in the Concorso internazionale section at Locarno Film Festival 2018.