SIBEL

by Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti (France-Germany-Luxembourg-Turkey, 2018, 1h35)

starring Damla Sönmez, Emin Gürsoy, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Elit Iscan

25 years 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. There she crosses path with a fugitive. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her.