Deniz Celiloğlu

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.

Temmuz is an openly gay sculptor living in a flat with his dog in Istanbul. He lives a bohemian lifestyle and has a happy go lucky, carefree, eccentric character, and is frequently distracted from his work as a children's book illustrator.