The Turkish director and scriptwriter Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses has been selected for competition at Festival de Cannes. The film is co-produced by Film i Väst and Nadir Öperli and Beata Gårdeler at Second Land. Parts of the post production have been made in Västra Götaland. Furthermore Felipe Gálves’ The Settlershas been selected for Un Certain Regard.

– We congratulate Nuri Bilge Ceylan for this prestigious feat. It’s his fourth feature film in competition in Cannes, and we have great expectations for About Dry Grasses. To be in competition in Cannes is one our main tasks as co-producers. Last year Ruben Östlund triumphed with his Triangle of Sadness. We also congratulate Felipe Gálves and his film The Settlers in Un Certain Regard, says Kristina Börjeson, Head of Production at Film i Väst.

 

 

 

 Film facts:

In competition: About Dry Grasses

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Script: Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer: NBC Film. Swedish co-producer: Nadir Öperli, Beata Gårdeler, Second Land. A co-production between Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden and Qatar.

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.

Post production in Västra Götaland: Dupp Film, CAN Film

The Turkish director and scriptwriter Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey. His breakthrough came with Clouds of May at the Berlinale 2000. The following three feature films, Distant (2002), The Climate (2006) and Three Monkeys (2008) were selected for and won prizes in Cannes. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and The Wild Pear Tree (2018) were nominated Palme d’Or. He won the Golden Palm and the FIPRESCI Prize for Winter Sleep (2014). The Wild Pear Tree was co-produced with Film i Väst.

Un Certain Regard: The Settlers 

Director: Felipe Gálvez
Script: Felipe Gálvez, Antonia Girardi
Producer: Quijote Films, co-producers: Katrin Pors, Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin, Snowglobe. Co-producing countries: Chile, Argentine, UK, Taiwan, France, Sweden, Denmark Germany

Post production in Västra Götaland: CAN Film

Synopsis: Chile, beginning of the 20th century. Three horsemen are hired by a rich landowner to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic ocean for his sheep. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean half-blood, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid across the vast Patagonia.

Felipe Gálvez was born in Santiago de Chile 1983 and graduated at the Universidad del Cine, i Buenos Aires Argentina. He has directed a number of short films, among them Raptor, premiered at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes 2018. The Settlers (Los Colonos) is his first feature film.

 

Film i Väst and Festival de Cannes

Through the years Film i Väst’s co-productions have been quite successful at the Festival de Cannes. In 2000 Björk won Best actress in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark. Same director was in competition 2003 and 2005 with his Dogville respectively Manderley.

  • 2022 Ruben Östlund won the Golden Palm for his Triangle of Sadness, Tarik Saleh won Best script for his Boy from Heaven och Zar Amir-Ebrahimi won Best Actress in Ali Abbasis’ Holy Spider. The fourth co-production in competition was Cristian Mungius’ M.N.
  • 2021 Joachim Trier was in competion for his The Worst Person in the World, and Renate Reinsve won Best actress in the same film.
  • The pandemic year 2020 three co-production were quality marked with a Cannes 2020 Label: Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasureand Magnus von Horn’s Sweat.
  • 2019 Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Palm nominated The Dead Don’t Die was the opening film. Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers was in competition
  • 2018 Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Treewas nominated for a Palme d’Or
  • 2017 Ruben Östlund’sThe Square won The Golden Palm.