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Sibel

Directed by Guillaume Giovanetti, Çagla Zencirci

Starring Damla Sönmez, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil

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.