About Dry Grasses. 2023. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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Held on Sat, Dec 2, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

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About Dry Grasses. 2023. Turkey. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Courtesy Sideshow/Janus Films

For members at the Explore category and above, tickets will become available two weeks before the screening date, starting at 10:30 a.m. Additional tickets will be available to members and the general public one week before the screening date, also at 10:30 a.m. Please note that space is extremely limited and tickets will be in high demand.

About Dry Grasses. 2023. Turkey. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Screenplay by Akin Aksu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan. With Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici. DCP. Courtesy Sideshow/Janus Films. In Turkish; English subtitles. 197 min.

Art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloglu) is entering the final year of a mandatory assignment in a small village whose remoteness and forbidding, wintry environment have left him feeling suffocated and restless. The presence of Nuray (Merve Dizdar, Cannes Best Actress award winner), a ravishing, enigmatic teacher from a neighboring school, offers a glimpse of romance and intellectual replenishment, but an incident with a student compels Samet to equally seek and reject self-reflection. Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s expansive, novelistic film is an ingenious if inconclusive portrait of human desires, beliefs, and actions.

This film accompanies The Contenders 2023.

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