Directors: Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti
Script: Çagla Zencirci, Ramata Sy G. Giovanetti
Cinematographer: Eric Devin
Editing: Véronique Lange
Sound: Tim Stephan, Stephan Konken
Music: Bassel Hallak and Pi
Cast: Damla Sönmez, Emin Gürsoy, Erkan Kolçak
Production: Les Films du tambour, Riva Filmproduktion, Bidibul Productions, Mars Productions, Reborn Productions
Distribution:
Pyramide Films
32 rue de l'Echiquier
75 010 Paris
France
Phone: 0033 1 42 96 01 10
programmation@ pyramidefilms.com
www.pyramidefilms.com
Year: 2018
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 95 mn,
O.V. Turkish with French Subtitles
Selected and awarded in several international festivals
Sibel, who is 25 years old, lives with her father and her sisters in an isolated village in the Black Sea mountains in Turkey. She is dumb but can communicate thanks to the ancient, whistled dialect of the region. Rejected by the other villagers, she tracks down, without letting up, a wolf which is said to roam around the nearby forest, and which is at the heart of the fears and fantasies of the village women. It’s there that she comes upon a fugitive. Wounded, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first person to look upon her in a different way.
“Women like Sibel exist all over the world, women who are confined to a certain role model, for whom society fixes the limits. But the path of Sibel is that of a form of liberation. Due to her handicap, she has not been sullied by what is imposed daily on the fair sex. She has been brought up in a more liberated and independent fashion by her father… She develops in quite another way, with an acuteness in her vision of the world, in search of a primeval, primitive interior strength.” C. Zencirci et G. Giovanetti