Two men in the near, but indefinite future... What are Prof. Erol Erin, seed genetics expert, and Cemil Akman, a scientist who abandoned a bright career and everything he knew, pursuing in a forbidden area called Dead Lands?
Grain
Buğday
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Semih Kaplanoğlu
- Script: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Leyla İpekçi
- Cinematography: Giles Nuttgens
- Editing: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Osman Bayraktaroğlu, Ayhan Ergürsel
- Sound: Jörg Kidrowski
- Music: Mustafa Biber
- Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Ermin Bravo, Grigoriy Bobrygin
- Production: Kaplan Film Production
- Producers: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Nadir Operli
- Co-production: Heimatfilm, Sophie Dulac Productions, The Chimney Pot, Galata Fil, ΤRT & ZDF / Arte
- Art Direction: Naz Erayda
- Format: DCP
- Color: B&W
- Production Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 127΄
- Distribution in Greece: AMA Films
- Contact: The Match Factory
Semih Kaplanoğlu
Semih Kaplanoğlu was born in 1963 in Turkey. He is one of the most acclaimed writer-director-producers of contemporary cinema in Turkey. With his third feature Egg (2007) Kaplanoğlu achieved international recognition as the film was premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. In 2008 Milk premiered at the Venice Film Festival, giving him international awards, such as FIPRESCI prize at the Istanbul Film Festival. Honey (2010), the third part of the Yusuf Trilogy, won the Golden Bear at Berlinale that year. As a producer, he recently contributed with his fellow director Aida Begic in Children of Sarajevo which earned a special mention in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard (2012). Grain is his sixth feature.
Filmography
2000 Herkes Kendi Evinde | Away From Home
2004 Meleğin Düşüşü | Angel’s Fall
2007 Yumurta | Egg | Αυγό
2008 Süt | Milk | Γάλα
2010 Bal | Honey | Μέλι
2017 Buğday | Grain | Σπόρος
