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.
Acting
Damla Sönmez's entire performance without a single spoken word.
Sound
The actual whistled language—UNESCO heritage, hauntingly real.
Cinematography
Misty Black Sea mountains that swallow people whole.
Director
Guillaume Giovanetti
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