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About Dry Grasses

Deniz Celiloğlu

Merve Dizdar

Musab Ekici

Ece Bağcı

Erdem Şenocak

Yüksel Aksu

Münir Can Cindoruk

Onur Berk Arslanoğlu

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Elit Andaç Çam

Nalan Kuruçim

Ferhat Akgün

Eylem Canpolat

Cevahir Şahin

Kürşat Üresin

Akın Aksu

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Alexandre Mallet-Guy

Pınar Gök

Mediha Didem Türemen

Oguz Atabas

Jean-Pierre Laforce

Janine Jackowski

Jonas Dornbach

Maren Ade

Nadir Öperli

Kristina Börjeson

Anthony Muir

Sébastien Beffa

Meral Aktan

Giuseppe Verdi

Fatih Aydoğdu

Clément Laforce

Begüm Aydın

Gülsah Yüksel

Fatih Yücel

Fazlı Balcı

Nur Morkoç

Nuriye Gündoğdu

Olivier Père

Rémi Burah

Mehmet Zahid Sobacı

Carlos Gerstenhauer

Bettina Ricklefs

Melisa Bodur

Barış Yıldırım

Yıldız Aşanboğa

Ayaz Ceylan

Yasin Akin

Okay Temel

Serkan Darende

Hüseyin Özhamam

Orhan Gençal

Kenan Şahin

Ercan Kiraz

Alper Doğruer

Ezgi Paltun

Zeki Güneş

Sevim Korhan

Cansu Tabak

Begüm Tabak

Ahmet Şahin

Harun Özübelli

Eray Temiz

Zeynel Demirhan

Yasin Tan

Ömer Sarı

Mehmet Ali Alparslan Gönül

Pascal Chauvin

Ebru Ceylan

Philip Timofeyev

Lachlan Thiele

INT. BEST SURPRISE OF THE FESTIVAL - DAY

When I heard the concept of the film, I'll be honest I wasn't that interested. 

> A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. However, his colleague Nuray helps him to regain a perspective.

But, a moment in this film made me realise I was watching cinema. Thank you, Turkey, for this film. It was a treat! Now time to tally all the times someone called it 'About Dry Glasses.' 

2 Hours of gripping drama, the final hour is happy hour from the director.

FADE OUT.

Masterpiece is the only word for this film.  Nominated for the 2023 Palm D'Or, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has created an extraordinary film set in the snowy mountains of Turkey.  The film explores life in an elementary school in a small village, and the lives of some of the teachers and kids.  Sounds innocuous, right? Well, this may be the most powerful study of evil I have ever seen.  There's no blood. No onscreen violence. It's all exposed through subtle dialog, spaces between words, and is a deep study of manipulation and power.  I'm amazed that Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films win all the film prizes in Turkey given how repressive their regime is. But what he is able to do - as all Master filmmakers do when living in this kind of world - is to translate the world of evil from the halls of government to hallways of a children's school.  When evil is expressed quietly and those who could stop it stand aside, the results are devastating to the victims.

When Master filmmakers live under repressive regimes, they cannot openly criticize the government that requires silence.  Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan tells stories set in small villages, and in this case, in an elementary school.  But his examination of evil may be the most profound I have ever seen.  In this film, evil is not shown committing bloody violence, but using subtle language and actions to destroy people, including children.  The film explores how those who would destroy are protected by those who do not have the will to stand up to that evil, even when they can see it clearly.  In this film, no one is capable of protecting the victims, many of whom are not even aware of the trauma they are experiencing.  Brilliant. Do not miss.

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