Janus Contemporaries To Release The Acclaimed Drama ‘About Dry Grasses’ On Blu-Ray This October

Janus Contemporaries has announced that they will be adding the critically acclaimed drama About Dry Grasses to the collection on Blu-Ray and DVD on October 22, 2024. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest existential epic is a masterclass in moral and philosophical inquiry that proves Ceylan to be one of cinema’s most incisive investigators of the human condition. The film premiered in the main competition section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where Merve Dizdar won the Best Actress award. It was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Get more details below!

Synopsis: The latest existential epic from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a masterclass in characterization, atmosphere, and moral and philosophical inquiry. When he comes under scrutiny for misconduct, cynical middle-school instructor Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) fears that his punishment will trap him in the snowy, isolated Anatolian village he has grown to despise. The only ray of hope is his relationship with Nuray (Merve Dizdar, who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), a fellow teacher who openly challenges Samet’s bitter narcissism—yet Samet’s friendship with his colleague and roommate, Kenan (Musab Ekici), who also has feelings for Nuray, hangs in the balance. Using hypnotic long takes and other bold formal techniques to convey the murky motives of its Dostoevskian protagonist, About Dry Grasses proves Ceylan to be one of cinema’s most incisive investigators of the human condition.

Special Features

• Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Trailer