In Cannes Palme d’Or Nuri winner Bilge Ceylan’s (WINTER SLEEP) brilliant and multi-layered ABOUT DRY GRASSES, the dour Samet is a public school teacher in a small rural village in East Anatolia, who lives with his colleague Kenan. Against the wintery, harsh backdrop, Samet is unsatisfied, and yearns for a new job posting in Istanbul. When his inappropriate closeness to his young pupil Sevim is exposed, his fears that public scrutiny will dash his hopes of bigger and better things. Anxious and angry, Samet turns his discontented attention to the vibrant new teacher Nuray (Merve Dizdar, winner of Best Actress at Cannes for her performance). ABOUT DRY GRASSES quietly explodes on the screen as Ceylan uses one man’s darkest impulses to explore themes of masculinity, power, guilt, and jealousy, set against a stunning, snowy backdrop, inviting the chill to creep into every inch of the frame. Film Center exclusive.