title: Grain (film)
text: # Grain (film)
  
  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). The film was shot in Detroit, Michigan, Germany and Turkey.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Jean-Marc Barr as Erol Erin
  * Ermin Bravo as Cemil Akman
  * Grigoriy Dobrygin as Andrei
  * Cristina Flutur as Alice
  * Lubna Azabal as Beatrice
  * Hal Yamanouchi as Leon
  * Mila Böhning as Tara
  * Rainer Steffen as Professor Ekrem Aktolga
  * Hoji Fortuna as Alexandre
  * Jarreth J. Merz as Viktor Rerberg
  * Nike Maria Vassil as Prof. Asli Yurtcu
  