Yüksel Aksu

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.

A tense and thought-provoking thriller, The Graft traces the intersecting lives of two men committed to protecting their families at any cost. When his beloved sister is found dead of an alleged suicide, Dr. Ozan Yilmaz sets out to prove she was murdered. Meanwhile, after the death of well-known crime boss Mehmet, Kenan becomes the leader of a local syndicate but is forced behind bars with the arrival of a new chief of intelligence, leaving second-in-command Riza to choose between protecting the interests of the business or his degenerate son. While Ozan fights for justice and forges a tentative alliance with Kenan, Mehmet’s daughter, Deren, schemes for a place in her late father’s organization, stoking the flames of the conflict to achieve her own ends.