About Dry Grasses

Synopsis

A film told through a teacher doing his military service in a remote part of Eastern Anatolia in Turkey; a story that not only attempts to closely depict the alienation he feels, having been relocated from the center to the far periphery. It also reveals the severe difficulties faced by the region’s inhabitants, and the consequences of geographical, ethnic, or social conditions.

Production Facts

The Turkish director and script writer Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in 1959 in Istanbul. He has a long list of films behind him. His breakthrough came with "Clouds of May", which was shown in the main competition in Berlin in 2000. Ceylan’s following four films, "Uzak" (2002), "Årstider" (2006), "De tre aporna" (2008), and "Bir zamanlar Anadolu’da" (2011), were all shown in the main competition in Cannes, and all four received awards at the festival. He was nominated for the Palme d’Or for "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" (2011). He won the Palme d’Or and the FIPRESCI Prize for "Vinterdvala" (2014) and was nominated again for "The Wild Pear Tree" (2018), which was co-produced with Film i Väst.

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