National Competition

GRAIN

• Director: Semih Kaplanoğlu
• TURKEY, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWEDEN, QATAR / 2017 / DCP / B&W / 128´ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Leyla İpekçi
• Director of Photography: Giles Nuttgens
• Editing: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Osman Bayraktaroğlu, Ayhan Ergürsel
• Music: Mustafa Biber
• Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Ermin Bravo, Grigory Dobrygin, Cristina Flutur
• Producer: Semih Kaplanoğlu, Nadir Öperli
• Co-Producer: Johannes Rexin, Taha Altaylı, Bettina Brokemper, Sophie Dulac, Michel Zana, Fredrik Zander
• Production Co.: Kaplan Film Yapım
• World Sales: The Match Factory

- 2017 TOKYO Grand Prize

- 2017 ADANA Best Music, Best Art Director, Film-Yön Award (Best Director)

Two men in the near, but indefinite future... What are seed genetics expert Prof. Erol Erin and Cemil Akman, a scientist who abandoned a bright career and everthing he knew, pursuing the forbidden area called Dead Lands?

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.