Merve Dizdar

Merve Dizdar won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her shattering performance in this generously portioned drama from Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Nimbly mapping the erotic and spiritual tensions of small-town life, About Dry Grasses is a novelistic wonder of Chekhovian scope and intimacy.

Two brothers’ blunder involving an elderly man becomes an unexpected boon for their auto-painting business. But can they handle all the attention?

Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.