Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.
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Weeks before filming was about to begin, a lead producer backed out. Though her major reason was financial, she wrote to other producers and mentioned, among other things, director Deniz Gamze Ergüven's pregnancy, which Ergüven had learned a week before. Three days later, Charles Gillibert saved the day as he came on board to produce the film.
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Director/writer Deniz Gamze Ergüven met her co-writer Alice Winocour at the Cannes Film Festival's Atelier for beginner film makers where they were the only two women attending the program. Ergüven was there to work on a film about the LA riots, which would become Kings (2017). After Ergüven failed to attract producers and financiers, Winocour suggested Ergüven do a smaller scale movie to prove that she was capable of directing. Together they started working on Mustang.
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Mustang (2015) is Deniz Gamze Ergüven's first feature-length film.
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The soccer scene was acted at an actual match where no men above the age of 12 were allowed to attend. Since the filmmakers were denied filming the match at the last minute, they sent the actresses to perform the scene anyway and used actual footage from the broadcast in the film.
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Warren Ellis, who had never done a film score by himself, initially declined director Deniz Gamze Ergüven's offer to compose a score for the film due to a busy schedule, but was eventually persuaded. "She'd just had the baby and come straight back in with the baby on her lap, editing the film," Ellis recalled. "It just shows how pathetic we are as guys."
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Actor/director James Franco's favorite film of 2015. [Indiewire, Nov.19, 2015]
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Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven was 13-weeks pregnant when the filming began and 20-weeks pregnant when it wrapped.
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Official submission of France for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 88th Academy Awards in 2016.
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Elit Iscan was the only one who had acted before this film out of the main five girls.
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Tugba Sunguroglu was discovered and recruited to star in the film by director Deniz Gamze Ergüven at the baggage claim of the Charles de Gaulle Airport after a flight from Istanbul to Paris.
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French visa # 156949 delivered on 4-1-2016.
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Swiss visa # 1010.940.
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When the girls go to the football match, the jerseys they are wearing are those of the opposing Galatasaray team and not the local team, Trabzonspor.
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The girls want to go to the Galatasaray-Trabzon match. They say to Yasin that they need to go to Trabzon. However, later when we see them on TV, the score shows Galatasaray's (GS) name first which means the match is in Istanbul not in Trabzon.
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