A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing and spitting.
Director:
Writer:
Stars:
The foreign title of the film is the name of a Canary island – LA GOMERA. The English title THE WHISTLERS refers to the people that speak the land’s native tongue, a language totally formed out of whistling – a whistling language called El Silbo Gomera.
Crooked cop Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) learns to speak this language from his Spanish-speaking Mafioso ‘friends’ so that he can communicate with them without the knowledge of the cops who has every place under surveillance including Cristi’s home. The story unfolds in 8 chapters each one named after a character in…
View original post 96 more words
WILDsound Festival 