Grain (film)

Grain (Buğday)
Grain (Buğday)
Directed by	Semih Kaplanoğlu
Screenplay by	Semih Kaplanoğlu
Produced by	Semih Kaplanoğlu
Starring	Jean-Marc Barr; Ermin Bravo; Grigoriy Dobrygin; Cristina Flutur;
Cinematography	Giles Nuttgens
Edited by	Osman Bayraktaroğlu; Ayhan Ergürsel; Semih Kaplanoğlu
Music by	Mustafa Biber
Production; company	Kaplan Film
Release date	12 August 2017 (Sarajevo Film Festival);
Running time	128 minute
Country	Turkey
Language	English

Grain (Buğday) is a 2017 film written and directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu.

Plot

In an undefined near future, Professor Erol Erin, a seed geneticist, lives in a city protected from multi-ethnic immigrants by magnetic walls. For unknown reasons, the city's agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis. In a meeting at the headquarters of Novus Vita, the corporation which employs him, Erol hears about Cemil Akman, a fellow geneticist who wrote a thesis about the recurrent crises affecting genetically modified seeds. Erol sets out on a journey to find him. A journey that will change everything Erol knew.

Production

The film is produced by Kaplanoğlu's company, Kaplan Film; and co-produced by Heimatfilm (Germany), Sophie Dulac Productions (France), The Chimney Pot (Sweden) and Arte France Cinéma (France).^[1]^[2] The film was shot in Detroit, Michigan, Germany and Turkey.