While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts

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While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
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Film poster
Directed by Peter Mettler
Written byPeter Mettler
Produced byPeter Mettler
Brigitte Hofer
Cornelia Seitler
CinematographyPeter Mettler
Edited byPeter Mettler
Jordan Kawai
Production
companies
Grimthorpe Film
Maximage
Release date
  • September 7, 2025 (2025-09-07)(TIFF) [1]
Running time
420 minutes [1]
CountriesCanada
Switzerland
LanguagesEnglish
Swiss German
Spanish

While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts is a 2025 Swiss-Canadian documentary film that offers a personal reflection on love, life, and the Earth's energy cycles. It is edited, shot, produced, written, and directed by Peter Mettler. Atom Egoyan is one of the executive producers. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. [1] [2] [3]

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Critical response

Pat Mullen of Point of View wrote that "These associations and connective tissues invite an active and immersive cinematic experience, although one might best reconnoitre it in a way that lends appropriate time for pause and reflection. While the Green Grass Grows, which screened in full for this review with an intermission between chapters four and five, might best be experienced as a series with each episode explored as its own adventure to later be taken in as a collective journey, much like 2022 TIFF Docs series Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot . The film’s design invites such a viewing, and the more space one has to marinate in it, the better." [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts". Toronto International Film Festival . Archived from the original on August 14, 2025. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Watch the First Trailer for Peter Mettler's TIFF Bound While the Green Grass Grows". POV. August 11, 2025. Archived from the original on August 14, 2025. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  3. ↑ "TIFF Documentary Lineup Revealed: Films On Canceled Paula Deen, Daring Aeronauts, "Modern Whores" And More". Deadline . August 6, 2025. Archived from the original on August 14, 2025. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  4. ↑ Pat Mullen, "While the Green Grass Grows Review: Or, the Endlessness of Time". Point of View , September 8, 2025.
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