CREW
Director: Erdem Tepegoz
Screenplay: Erdem Tepegoz
Producer: Altona Film
SYNOPSIS
A snowcapped mountain town disconnected from the rest of the world nine months a year… This town is a timeless and placeless town where the townsfolk speak very quietly and live without making a sound for fear of an avalanche. They set all ceremonies of birth, death, or weddings to springtime. No animal, except horses and cows, are allowed to live due to their possibility of making noises. Horses are only allowed outdoors, when necessary, with their heads glassed. Houses have set up a kind of rudimentary communication among themselves using wires. All townsfolk are used to live speaking below their breath, making no noise, not wandering outside in winters. To prevent avalanche, they show great respect to the mountain upon whose hills they live. These beliefs, to avoid misconducts, are strictly put to use by the chief and the elders. Yet, the order is broken when people learned a woman in town is due to give birth in mid-winter. A pregnant woman means birth, and birth means a woman’s scream and a child’s cry. As far as they know, these noises are enough to trigger an avalanche. How on earth do they overlook and not calculate a birth that should not have been scheduled to take place in the winter and what should they do now? Should the whole town be jeopardized for a baby or should they look for methods of a silent birth? There a conflict breaks up in town between men and women, elder and young, the ones supporting the birth and the ones who oppose due to the avalanche risk, conservatives and valiant ones who stand up against the avalanche, against the nature. There is little time before the birth and the avalanche is about to fall.