Eğridere cast only actors from the former Yugoslavia, most of whom lived through the war—including stars Adnan Novo and Sanja Popovic—and incorporated their experiences into her script. Production of the film was delayed due to 2014 Southeast Europe floods. Eğridere appealed via her official Twitter and Facebook profiles for donations to help the flood victims and pledged to donate all the funds raised through the film's Indiegogo campaign to aid in flood relief in the region. Before the production of the film started, Eğridere was compared to Angelina Jolie and "Seasons of War" was compared to Jolie's directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey", of which Eğridere explained that she watched and respected Jolie's work both as a director and a scriptwriter but "Seasons of War" was a totally different film that followed a totally different story line and that her film was not a war film but was a film simply about a couple and the difficult choices they had to make.