The Ecumenical Jury at the Locarno Film Festival has awarded the Prize 2018 Sibel to Guillaume Giovanetti and Çağla Zencirci (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey 2018)

The film tells the story of a young woman, Sibel, who lives in a village near the Black Sea in Turkey. The members of this community still maintain ancestral traditions and in particular the way they communicate through a special language. Sibel is marginalized because it is silent. He spends most of his time in the forest where he tries to live the freedom that is denied in the village. Sibel falls for a mysterious fugitive, and so it turns out women, managing to emancipate. The words with which the film was awarded the Ecumenical Jury is as follows: "The film creates a powerful image of a character that challenges the patriarchal structures and identity and becomes an example of dignity for the other women of the community".

This award is given since 1973 by Reformed and Catholic

The Ecumenical Jury awards from 1973 a premium to directors, with their artistic talent, They can sensitize viewers and spectators towards religious values, human or social. The jury summons visions of directors on justice, peace, respect and spiritual dimensions.

The prize, made available by the Evangelical Reformed Churches and the Roman Catholic Church Switzerland, It has 20,000 CHF and is linked to the distribution in Switzerland of the winning film.