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Sibel

Sibel

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Sibel

2019

1h 35m

6.7(89 votes)

Drama

Overview

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.

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Production Companies

Les Films du Tambour

Riva Film

Bidibul Productions

The people behind it

Cast & crew

7 featured cast members

Starring

Damla Sönmez

Damla Sönmez

Sibel

Erkan Kolçak Köstendil

Erkan Kolçak Köstendil

Ali

Emin Gürsoy

Emin Gürsoy

Emin

Elit İşcan

Elit İşcan

Fatma

Gülçin Kültür Şahin

Gülçin Kültür Şahin

Feride

Sevval Tezcan

Çiçek

Meral Çetinkaya

Meral Çetinkaya

Narin

Creative team

Directed by: Guillaume Giovanetti
Çagla Zencirci
Written by: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Çagla Zencirci
Produced by: Christel Henon
Michael Eckelt

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