A film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. „About Dry Grasses“ celebrated its world premiere in competition at The Cannes Filmfestival 2023
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…
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
Samet
Deniz Celiloğlu
Nuray
Merve Dizdar
Kenan
Musab Ekici
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)
Cannes Film Festival 2023
Golden Palm Merve Dizdar
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
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