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The Whistlers
La Gomera
2019 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.
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La Gomera, Romanian indepedent movie, is based on this. The director learned about the whistling lunguage and then, for almost a decade, looked fot ways to transform it into a movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7921248/
I'm learning French (B1 level) and was surprised how much I could pick out of a Romanian movie (the tremendously enjoyable https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/christchurch/the-whistlers/).