About Dry Grasses
(IN POSTPRODUCTION)
A NBC FILM PRODUCTION (TURKEY) IN CO-PRODUKTION WITH MEMENTO PRODUCTION (FRANCE), KOMPLIZEN FILM (GERMANY), SECOND LAND (SWEDEN), FILM I VÄST (SWEDEN), ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA (FRANCE), BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK (GERMANY), TRT SINEMA (TURKEY) AND PLAYTIME (FRANCE). IN ASSOCATION WITH MEMENTO DISTRIBUTION, ARTE FRANCE, 12 PUNTO (TRT) AND DOHA FILM INSTITUTE. FUNDED BY EURIMAGES, TURKISH MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF CINEMA, TURKISH RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION (TRT), AIDE AUF CINÉMAS DU MONDE, CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINÉMA ET DE L’IMAGE ANIMÉE – INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, RÉGION ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, MOIN FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, PEGASUS AIRWAYS, MOJO FX
Synopsis

Through a teacher, who is doing his compulsory service in a remote district in Eastern Anatolia; a story not only trying to take a look at the inner effects of feelings of alienation, of removal from the center and of existence on the fringes, but also to brush upon and interpret the struggles of the region's residents difficult life and the dynamics of the geographic, ethnic or social fabric around.

Cast
Samet Deniz Celiloğlu
Nuray Merve Dizdar
Kenan Musab Ekici
Crew
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenplay Akın Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Director of Photography Cevahir Şahin, Kürsat Üresin
Editing Oğuz Atabaş, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Production Design Meral Aktan
Costume Design Gülşah Yüksel
Make Up Nur Morkoç, Nuriye Gündoğdu
Casting Pınar Gök
Original Sound Fatih Aydoğdu
Sound Design Clément Laforce
Line Producing Barış Yıldırım
Commissioning Editor Carlos Gerstenhauer (BR)
Executive Producer Mediha Didem Türemen
Co-producers Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Nadir Öperli, Anthony Muir, Sébastien Beffa, Olivier Père, Rémi Burah, Mehmet Zahid Sobaci
Producer Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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