Silent

Synopsis

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…

Director Biography

Born in 1977, he graduated from the Cinema-TV department of Marmara University in 2008. His short film Hüküm (Judgement) was the first film of his Trilogy of Women. He shot Sessiz/Be Deng (Silent) in 2011 which is the second film of the trilogy.