While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts

Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2025 / 420 min

Peter Mettler is one of the most visionary filmmakers of our time. His curiosity has led him to make films about everything from the northern lights and biology to religious ecstasy, hallucinations, and the mystery of time. He has expanded the boundaries of what film can be about – and what film is. His new work is both his most extensive and most personal.

‘While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts’ is a philosophical diary in seven parts, filmed in locations including the Mexican mountains, Cuba, and Canada over three years of major changes in Mettler’s own life. All this may sound abstract, but Mettler’s greatest art is to make the fundamental questions of existence present and to invite us to participate in the journey of discovery on an equal footing with himself. Curiosity and a profound openness to the world are the driving forces behind his life’s work, and you suddenly feel that all the doors of consciousness are wide open when you let yourself be immersed by his generous and deeply original vision.