40 DAYS OF SILENCE
2014
Drama
88'
SYNOPSIS
Bibicha, a young woman living in a small Uzbek village, suddenly refuses to speak and conceals herself in the house of her aunt Khanjarmomo. Is she vowing to silence for the return of her beloved one, or is she hiding the fruit of a love consumed illicitly? Khanjarmomo worries about the fate of the women in the family as she is already taking care of her illegitimate granddaughter Sharifa, whose mother disappeared years ago. When Sharifa’s mother suddenly returns from the city, the next forty days bring back to life the past and future of this family of women whose unfortunate destinies seem to repeat every generation in an emotional curse.
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Director
Writer
Saodat Ismailova
Saodat Ismailova & Ulughbek
Director of photography: Benito Strangio
Editors: Benjamin Mirquet & Nathalie Alonso-Casale
Composer: Jacob Kirkegaard
(Co-) Producers
Financiers
Volya Films(NL), Petit Film | Roh Films
Fonds Sud Cinéma, Ministére de la Culture et la Communication, CNC, Ministére des Affaires Etrangéres er Européennes France, Rotterdam Media Fund, World Cinema Fund, Fondation Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma, Hubert Bals Fund, Netherlands Film Fund, MEDIA Programme, Sundance Institute, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art Grant, Götenberg International Film Festival Fund, Global Film Initiative
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