About Dry Grasses
Kuru Otlar Üstüne
Suhe trave
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An incident at a state school in Anatolia thwarts a teacher's dream of escaping his bleak life in a remote Turkish region.

Samet, a teacher at a state school in a remote province, is very candidly bored with everything and longs for a posting to Istanbul. He has a favourite pupil: Sevim, a 14-year-old with whom he exchanges flirtatious banter and sometimes puts his arm round her shoulders. When a love letter addressed to Samet is found in Sevim's exercise book by a member of staff, Samet is coldly embarrassed: his warm affection for her is replaced by a wary sense that this is going to get him into trouble. He almost 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?

"What has driven me to form a narrative through the experiences of an art teacher in the midst of his compulsory service in Turkey's Eastern Anatolian region was mainly the idea that such a subject could present a rich motley of situations and events that could provide room for discussions on basic concepts that, in our country, continuously confront us as the principal dichotomies, like good versus evil, and individualism versus collectivism." (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Section: AVANTPREMIERES
Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Country, year: Turkey, Sweden, Germany, France, 2023
Length: 197
Subtitles: Slovenian
Language: Turkish

Screening in cinema:

Fri, 10.11.2023 11:00 Kinodvor Cinema Buy
Sun, 12.11.2023 15:00 Linhart Hall Buy
Sat, 18.11.2023 21:00 Kosovel Hall Buy

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Screenplay:
Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cinematography:
Cevahir Sahin, Kürsat Üresin
Music:
Philip Timofeyev
Cast:
Deniz Celiloglu (Samet), Merve Dizdar (Nuray), Musab Ekici (Kenan), Ece Bagci (Sevim), Erdem Senocak (Tolga), Yüksel Aksu (Vahit), Münir Can Cindoruk (Feyyaz), Onur Berk Arslanoglu (Bekir), Yildirim Gücük (Milli Egitim Müdürü), Cengiz Bozkurt (Nail), Emrah Özdemir (narednik), Elif Ürse (Saime), Elit Andaç Çam (Firdevs), Nalan Kuruçim (Kevser)
Producent:
Memento Production & NBC Film & Komplizen Film
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Distribution:
Fivia d.o.o.
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Sales:
Playtime
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About director
Born in 1959 in Istanbul, Bilge Ceylan is considered as one of the greatest European cinema revelations of the late 1990s. Distant, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, launched the director's international career. His following films also attracted notice at Cannes; Once Upon a Time in Anatolia received the Grand Prix, and Winter Sleep won the coveted Palme d'Or in 2014.
Filmography
2003 Uzak (Distant/Oddaljen)
2006 Iklimler (Climates/Podnebje)
2008 Üc maymun (Three Monkeys/Tri opice)
2011 Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia/Bilo je nekoč v Anatoliji)
2014 Kis uykusu (Winter Sleep/Zimsko spanje)
2018 Ahlat agaci (The Wild Pear Tree/Divja hruška)
2023 Kuru Otlar Üstüne (About Dry Grasses/Suhe trave)