Silent
Turkey, 2012, 15 minutes, Digital, Color, Turkish Kurdish
2012 Cannes FF; Golden Palm Melbourne FF; Best fiction Film Cinemed FF; Grand Prix
Director: L. Rezan Yeşilbaş
Screenplay: L. Rezan Yeşilbaş
Cinematography: Türksoy Gölebeyi
Editing: Buğra Dedeoğlu, Rezan Yeşilbaş
Cast: Belçim Bilgin, Cem Bender
The year is 1984. Zeynep, who lives in Diyarbakır with her three children, wants to visit her husband in prison. Zeynep is only able to speak her mother tongue ‘Kurdish’; however, only the Turkish language is allowed to be spoken in prison, so she’s unable to utter a word there. On the other hand, she wants to bring a new pair of shoes to her husband but it’s forbidden to bring anything to prisoners from outside…