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.
- Country:
- , Luksemburg Turkey, France, Germany, Luxembourg, 2018
- Group:
- Focus Europe
- Duration:
- 95’
- Director:
- Guillaume Giovanetti, Çagla Zencirci
- Screenplay:
- Guillaume Giovanetti, Çagla Zencirci, Ramata Sy
- Cast:
- Damla Sönmez, Emin Gürsoy, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Elit İşcan, Meral Çetinkaya, Sevval Tezcan
- Festivals:
- 2018 Lokarno, Toronto, Adana, Čikago, Haifa, Monpelje / Locarno International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
- Filmography:
- 2018 Sibel
2013 Ningen
2012 Noor - Cinematography:
- Eric Devin
- Editing:
- Véronique Lange
- Music:
- Bassel Hallak, Pi
- Producer:
- Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha, Michael Eckelt, Johannes Jancke, Marsel Kalvo, Nefes Polat, Christel Henon, Lilian Eche
- Production:
- Les Films du Tambour, Riva Filmproduktion, Bidibul s, Mars s, Reborn
- Awards:
- 2018 Adana Film Festival - Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Hamburg Film Festival - Hamburg s Award, Locarno International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Showing
Time: 19:30
Price: 400 RSD
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Time: 12:00
Price: 300 RSD
Dvorana Kulturnog centra
French-Turkish couple Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti have been co-directing films, and their lives, since 2004. After multiple short films (selected in Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand) and two features, Noor screened in Cannes and Ningen, shown in Toronto, their third feature film, Sibel, is in front of the Belgrade audience.
The movie’s biggest selling point is the whistle language, which may seem like it comes straight out of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”: Locals in the northeastern village of Kuşköy have developed a way of communicating across the hilly fields by imitating bird calls, honing the sounds so that complex sentences are transmitted using hoots and pips. It’s fascinating to listen to, and apparently an accurate representation of how residents call out to one another.
Jay Weissberg, Variety
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