About Dry Grasses

Masters

"A ravishingly cinematic piece of work"

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  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Turkey, France, Germany 2023
  • 197 minutes
  • Turkish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Samet, a young art teacher, is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him overcome his angst?

Winner of the Best Actress Award in the 2023 Cannes Festival, About Dry Grasses is a rich, poetic and mesmerizing film with ravishing cinematography and fine acting, by one of the great masters of world cinema. “Another masterclass in conversational cinema,” (IndieWire).

Filmography: The Wild Pear Tree (2018), Winter Sleep (2014), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Three Monkeys (2008), Climates (2006), Distant (2003), Clouds of May (2000).

Oscars: Turkey Selects ‘About Dry Grasses’ for International Feature Category

 

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  • Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Production Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Nadi̇r Öperli̇, Kristina Börjeson,Anthony Muir, Sébastien Beffa
  • Script Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan
  • Cinematography Cevahi̇r Şahi̇n, Kürşat Üresi̇n
  • Editing Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Oğuz Atabaş
  • Music Philip Timofeyev
  • Festivals Deni̇z Celi̇loğlu, Merve Di̇zdar, Musab Eki̇ci̇
  • Actors Anaita Wali Zada, Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington
  • Source Lev Cinemas