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About Dry Grasses

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2023
Türkiye
197 minutes
Unclassified 18+
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (SFF 2012) director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film returns to that region to tell the tale of an art teacher accused of impropriety by a student.

Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) is completing his compulsory service as a teacher in a remote Anatolian village, where the winters are brutal and the monotony overpowering. He longs for a posting to Istanbul. Samet has a particularly close relationship with a 14-year-old female student, Sevim, who one day makes a serious accusation against him. At the same time, Samet is competing with his roommate for the affections of fellow teacher Nuray (Cannes Best Actress Award winner Merve Dizdar, superb). The images are as ravishing as ever, and Ceylan, winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep (SFF 2014), once again captures the ambiguous morality and mysterious motivations of humanity with bracing clarity.

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This is Ceylan at his most limber and mischievous, the filmmaking exhibiting a generosity and curiosity that belies the script’s defense of individualist, even isolationist, living, at whatever cost to one’s own happiness
Guy Lodge, Variety
This is another very absorbing movie from this unique director … who thoroughly deserves his continuing A-list status
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Tickets

Sat 8 Jun
4:30pm
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
Mon 10 Jun
12pm
State Library of NSW
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
Sat 15 Jun
6pm
Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
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Features
Original Title
KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE
Year
2023
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Country
Türkiye, France, Germany
Language
In Turkish with English Subtitles
Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer
Jonas Dornbach, Kristina Börjeson, Anthony Muir, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Sébastien Beffa, Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski, Nadi̇r Öperli̇
Cast
Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici
Screenwriter
Akin Aksu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan
Cinematographer
Cevahir Şahin, Kürşat Üresin
Editor
Oğuz Atabaş, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Premiere
NSW Premiere
Genre
Festival Award Winners, Cinephile, Cannes Selected, Middle East
Company Credits
Sales Agent: Playtime
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