A wife walks miles in silence. The shoes in her hands say everything words cannot.
A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980, where the only language allowed to be spoken in prison is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” for short film in Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Acting
Belçim Bilgin's face carries an entire forbidden language.
Direction
Yesilbas makes silence louder than any dialogue could be.
Production
Diyarbakır's dusty roads become a character of political weight.
Director
L. Rezan Yesilbas
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