ABOUT DRY GRASSES
KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE
NURI BILGE CEYLAN
2023
year
197
Minutes
SCHEDULE
01.03.2024
/ 07:00 PM/
Audi 5 PVR INOX ORION MALL
05.03.2024
/ 07:40 PM/
Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
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?
Producer(s) or Production Company: Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Nadi̇r Öperli̇, Kristina Börjeson
Screenplay: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Akın Aksu
Director of Photography: Kürşat Üresin, Cevahir Şahin
Editor: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Oğuz Atabaş
Music: Philip Timofeyev, Giuseppe Verdi
Sound: Jean-Pierre Laforce
Cast: Deni̇z Celi̇loğlu, Merve Di̇zdar, Musab Eki̇ci̇, Ece Bağci, Erdem Şenocak
Awards - Winner: Cannes FF (Best Actress- Merve Dizdar), Chicago IFF (Silver Hugo for Best Supporting Performance-Ece Bağcı), Lumières Award (Best International Co-Production)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: 96th Academy Awards (Turkish official entry for Best International Feature at the Oscars 2024), Cannes FF (Palme d'Or), Chicago IFF (Gold Hugo), Jerusalem (Best International Film)
Director's Biography
NURI BILGE CEYLAN
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul. In 1993, he started shooting his first short film, KOZA which was screened in Cannes in May 1995 and became the first Turkish short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival. His first three feature films were KASABA (1997), CLOUDS OF MAY (1999) and UZAK (2003). In 2006, CLIMATES won the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Award, in 2008 THREE MONKEYS won the Best Director Award, and in 2011 ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA won the Grand Prix again at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2014, his seventh feature film WINTER SLEEP won the Palme d’Or. With THE WILD PEAR TREE, in 2018, he returned to the Official Selection in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. ABOUT DRY GRASSES is his most recent film.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Indian Cinema Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA