An urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
Genco Erkal
The Teacher
Erkan Yücel
Halit
Şerif Sezer
Zazi
Rana Cabbar
Village head
Erol Demiröz
Ramazan
Berrin Koper
Zazi's daughter
Macit Koper
Schools inspector
Zeynep Irgat
Halit's wife
About Dry Grasses
I Saw the Sun
A Tale of Three Sisters
Paper Lives
The Young One
Reading Lolita in Tehran
That Evening Sun
Sibel
Sergio
A Dry White Season