2020 · Feature · 118 min
Silenced Tree
Director Faysal Soysal
Cast: Serdar Orçin, Sezin Akbaşoğulları, Ali Mert Yavuzcan, Kübra Kip, Şebnem Dilligil
Literature teacher Hayati learns the truth behind his father’s suicide, faces a collapsing marriage—and becomes the suspect in a murder case.
Hayati teaches literature in an Anatolian town. As a child he witnessed his father’s suicide; learning the real reason severs his hold on life. When his wife Yaprak leaves and a woman’s body is found in the lake, suspicion falls on him. Though innocent, he takes the blame—as if repeating his father’s fate by another path.
Faysal Soysal’s Türkiye–Iran co-production competed at the Istanbul Film Festival.
Awards & Festivals
- Istanbul Film Festival — National Competition selection