A film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. „About Dry Grasses“ celebrated its world premiere in competition at The Cannes Filmfestival 2023

Year  2023

Length: 197 min

Format:   1:2.35

Country of production  TUR, FRA, GER

Synopsis

The film follows Samet, a young teacher, who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. When some events happen to him that he finds difficult to make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. But his meeting with Nuray, herself a teacher, may help him overcome his angst…

Production

A NBC Film Production (Turkey) in co-production 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 aux 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

Cast

Samet

Deniz Celiloğlu

Nuray

Merve Dizdar

Kenan

Musab Ekici

Team

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)

Olivier Père, Rémi Burah (Arte)

Executive Producer

Mediha Didem Türemen (NBC)

Co-Producers

Alexandre Mallet-Guy (Memento)

Sébastien Beffa (Playtime)

Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade (Komplizen Film)

Anthony Muir (Film I Vast)

Mehmet Zahid Sobaci

Nadir Öperli

Producer

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (NBC)

Awards

Cannes Film Festival 2023

Golden Palm Merve Dizdar

Festivals

Cannes Film Festival 2023

Wettbewerb

Toronto IFF

Centerpiece

Busan IFF

Icons

Karlovy Vary IFF

Jerusalem FF

New Horizons IFF

Melbourne IFF

Lima Film Festival

Helsinki IFF

Oulan Bator FF

Batumi IAFF

New York FF

Haifa FF

Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest

Athens International Film Festival

Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal

The film Fest Gent

Viennale

Message to Man IFF

Ljubljana International Film Festival

MedFilm Festival, Roma

Jakarta World Cinema Week

Cairo International Film Festival

Tbilisi International Film Festival

Film Week á Buenos Aires

Singapore IFF

Days of European Film

Sydney FF (NSW premiere)

VAC Foundation

Filmfest Hamburg

IFF Mannheim

Around the World in 14 Films

Distribution

Weltvertrieb
Playtime

Deutscher Verleih

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