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Turkey's Merve Dizdar wins best actress at Cannes

Turkey's Merve Dizdar wins best actress at Cannes

Merve Dizdar has won the Cannes Film Festival's best actress prize for her role in About Dry Grasses as a teacher in an isolated village

Publish Date: 28/05/23 22:15
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Turkey's Merve Dizdar wins best actress at Cannes
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Turkish actress Merve Dizdar has won the Cannes Film Festival's best actress prize for her role in About Dry Grasses as a teacher in an isolated village.

French director Justine Triet won the festival's Palme d'Or for best film on Saturday becoming only the third woman to hold the coveted title. Dizdar's character in Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film captures the interests of two village schoolteachers and challenges their cynicism.

Dizdar, 36, has been starring in films and television since the early 2010s after studying acting and starting out in theatre. Previous roles have included some popular TV series in Turkey, including Wounded Love.

Triet used her award speech to criticise how the protest against pension reforms in France “has been denied and repressed in a shocking way”.

Triet won the prize with Anatomy of a Fall and beat some veteran directors including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders, all of whom have at least one Palme d'Or under their belts.

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