The Silent Tongue (2025) centers on a remote mountain village where an ancient legend warns that voices hold power capable of awakening forgotten spirits. The story follows Clara, a linguistics researcher traveling to the region in hopes of studying rare dialects before they disappear forever. Upon her arrival, she senses an unsettling quietness in the village; the locals speak in whispers, avoid eye contact, and insist that silence is the only protection against a force they call “the Tongue Beneath.” Despite their resistance, Clara becomes fascinated by the myth and begins collecting old texts and recordings left by her late father, who once investigated the same phenomenon.

Strange events begin soon after Clara discovers a stone tablet etched with symbols resembling phonetic marks. Whenever she reads them aloud, even unintentionally, the air seems to shift, and shadows flicker at the edges of her vision. The villagers grow fearful and warn her that these inscriptions are believed to summon a spirit that feeds on sound. Clara, torn between scientific curiosity and rising fear, continues her research, convinced that the legend must have a rational explanation. Yet the deeper she delves, the more she realizes that the patterns in the language behave like living entities.

One night, Clara hears an eerie voice echoing through the woods, calling her name in a tone identical to her father’s. Drawn by grief and longing, she follows the sound to an abandoned shrine where she encounters an apparition formed from swirling fragments of speech. The entity reveals that it has long existed as a parasitic consciousness, absorbing languages from dying cultures and seeking new hosts. It hints that her father attempted to control it and failed, leaving Clara to confront what he could not defeat.

As the creature grows stronger, mysterious disappearances spread throughout the village, and the remaining residents blame Clara for awakening the curse. Their fear transforms into desperation, forcing her to flee into the mountains to uncover the origin of the tablet. There she uncovers records indicating that the spirit was once a human linguist who accidentally unleashed a powerful resonance during experiments with forbidden phonetic combinations. His trapped voice evolved into the monstrous force now threatening the village.

In the tense climax, Clara devises a risky plan: to speak a counter-resonance capable of dissolving the spirit’s form, even though using her voice might bind her to it forever. She performs the ritual, causing the entity to collapse into silence, but the final scene leaves an ambiguous echo suggesting that a fragment of the spirit may still linger within her. The film ends with Clara departing the village, carrying both triumph and a haunting uncertainty about whether the curse is truly gone.