• Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
  • Turkey, France, Germany, Luxembourg 2018
  • 95 minutes
  • Turkish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

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 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.

Winner of three awards in the Locarno Fesival, Sibel is tale of female empowerment with a striking central performance from Damla Sönmez.


  • Director Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
  • Production Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha, Michael Eckelt, Johannes Jancke, Marsel Kalvo, Nefes Polat, Christel Henon, Lilian Eche
  • Script Çağla Zencirci, Ramata Sy, Guillaume Giovanetti
  • Cinematography Eric Devin
  • Editing Véronique Lange
  • Music Bassel Hallak, Pi
  • Festivals Locarno (Fipresci Prize, Young Jury Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury), Busan
  • Actors Damla Sönmez, Emin Gürsoy, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Elit İşcan, Meral Çetinkaya
  • Source Pyramide International, Paris