About Dry Grasses

Set in a tight-knit community that seems to only experience two seasons, is star director Nuri Bilge Ceylan back with a masterfully character-driven drama who probes into the darkest regions of the human soul.

Samit is an art teacher in his 30s and serving his fourth year of teaching in a remote village in Anatolia, Turkey. He is bored and tired, feels that life is drying up, and wants to return to Istanbul. However, an innocent but thoughtless flirt with a young classmate causes problems for him at school, and the process swirls against many different emotions. However, a new acquaintance with a teacher from another school provides the challenges he needs to confront his own thoughts and feelings.

Ceylan excels in the highest realms of conversational art, with a majestic visual style and actors who deliver at the highest level, especially Merve Dizdar, who won an award for best female lead at the Cannes Film Festival this year. It is one of the year's highlights for those who love the art of cinema and want to dive into its wonderful depths.

«An exceptionally thoughtful, intelligent film about thousands of different thoughts to consider about»
– Alex Billington, firstshowing.net –

Lasse Skagen

Director

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (b. 1959) is Turkey's foremost living filmmaker. He studied chemistry and electronics before switching to film studies. His first short film Koza (1995) screened at the Cannes festival, where he has become something of a regular. Over the years, many of his films have screened at Films from the South, like Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Winter Sleep (2014) and The Wild Pear Tree (2018).

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