Best of Show for Aly Yeganeh (France), Sibel's Silence, Film Feature
In addition to Best of Show, the film also received the following awards:
Award of Excellence: Direction
Award of Excellence: Actress: Leading (Laëtitia Eïdo as Hana)
Award of Excellence: Actress: Supporting (Mélissa Boros as Sibel)
Award of Excellence: Ensemble Cast
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Festival of Cinema NYC Best Narrative Feature Film
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival Best ensemble cast
Worldwide Women's Film Festival
Hong Kong Indie Film Festival
Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival
WRPN Women's International Film Festival Best of Festival Drama
Boston Independent Film Awards
Vancouver International Movie Awards
Toronto International Women Film Festival
Rome Independent Cinema Festival
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Aly Yeganeh IN new York holding his trophy for Best Narrative Feature Film
The 2023 Festival of Cinema came to a close on Sunday, August 13 with awards given out in 18 categories. Enthusiastic and emotional filmmakers and attendees celebrated at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center as it concluded the 7th edition of the Forest Hills-based film festival.
Aly Yeganeh’s Sibel’s Silence won Best Narrative Feature Film, and Pierre Guillet’s Th...
Bruno Chatelin met in Dubuque and Chicago airport with Aly Yeganeh, the director of Le Silence de Sibel (2020) which just won best ensemble cast at JDIFF.
This film tells the story of 13-year-old Sibel, one of the many thousands of girls kidnapped by ISIS fighters. After her entire family was murdered, Sibel was taken as a prisoner and forced into sexual slavery – all in the name of religion.Hana, 40, is an ophthalmologist living in a small town in central France. Of K...
Aly Yeganeh came to Cannes with his succesfull film Sibel's Silence Filmfestivals.com captured the emotion at the screening in the Palais during the Q&A.
This film tells the story of 13-year-old Sibel, one of the many thousands of girls kidnapped by ISIS fighters. After her entire family was murdered, Sibel was taken as a prisoner and forced into sexual slavery – all in the name of religion.Hana, 40, is an ophthalmologist living in a small town in central Franc...
The film has previously won at the following film festivals
Worldwide Women's Film Festival
Hong Kong Indie Film Festival
Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival
WRPN Women's International Film Festival
Boston Independent Film Awards
Vancouver International Movie Awards
Toronto International Women Film Festival
Rome Independent Cinema Festival
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CAST
Hana
Laëtitia Eïdo
Sibel
Mélissa Boros
La mère de Sibel
Rusen Houssin
Pierre-Étienne
Patrick Azam
Abou Rahman
Kondwani Fernandes Mores
Le père de Sibel
Sadettin Cecen
Claire
Claire Gable
Cathe...
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.
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