Sibel’s silence
Nominated for:Best Feature Film
Film Info
Film Year: 2021
Film Duration: 95 min
Country: France
Language: French
Director
Aly Yeganeh
Film Category
Synopsis
August 2014. ISIS invades the city of Sinjar, home to a religious minority called the Yazidis, in the north west of Irak. Sibel, a 13-year-old girl, witnesses the slaughter of her entire family. Alongside thousands of other women and young girls from her community, she is then kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.