Guest: Peter Mettler | Premiere: While the Green Grass Grows – A Diary in Seven Parts

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PREMIERE: In the presence of Peter Mettler, there is a unique opportunity to see his seven-hour work in the cinema and follow the sound-image flow entirely. This is his most personal film, sometimes tragic and funny, sometimes philosophical or poetic. The filming for the diary in seven chapters took over three years. In the unmistakable Petter Mettler style, the filmmaker weaves in 420 minutes memories, his own family history, and encounters with very different people into a meditative trip – a pondering and reflection on death, origin, dreams, and the fundamental human urge to tell stories. As in his earlier films, a trance-like pull emerges here, which one willingly submits to, blending the personal with an exploratory gesture that explores the possibilities of documentary film. In 2023, Peter Mettler won the main prize at the Visions du Réel festival with chapters 1 and 6, and in the same year, we had the opportunity to show chapters 2 and 3 as an exclusive sneak preview and as a