Nuri Bilge Ceylan on About Dry Grasses | NYFF61

We were thrilled to welcome director Nuri Bilge Ceylan to the 61st New York Film Festival to discuss the U.S. premiere of his film, About Dry Grasses. He sat down with FLC Assistant Programmer and NYFF Talks Programmer Madeleine Whittle to discuss metaphor, the composition of dialogue, and more. The latest deeply philosophical drama from Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a work of elegant, novelistic filmmaking set in a village nestled within the bleak landscape of the East Anatolia region in Turkey. Here, an art teacher named Samet (Deniz Celiloglu) is struggling through what he hopes to be his final year at an elementary school, complicated by a friendship with a charismatic new teacher (Cannes winner Merve Dizdar) and an accusation of impropriety with a student. A Sideshow/Janus Films release. More info: http://filmlinc.org Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like on Facebook:   / filmlinc   Follow on Twitter:   / filmlinc   Follow on Instagram:   / filmlinc