It is spread out across the landscape of western Anatolia, and again there is emphasis on still photography and portraiture.

It has a very typical title: that is, forbidding and slightly disconcerting. In About Dry Grasses’s final section, its lead character is to ponder the fact that the gauntly beautiful terrain of Anatolia seems to have only two seasons. The first is the snow-covered winter in which we get Ceylan’s signature shot of a lonely figure plodding towards the camera in the snow.

Samet has a favorite pupil: Sevim (Ece Bagci), 14, with whom he has flirtatious banter and sometimes puts his arm round.

When a love letter addressed to Samet is found in Sevim’s exercise book by a member of staff, Sevim is humiliated and tearful and Samet is coldly embarrassed: his warm affection to her is replaced by a wary sense that this is going to get him into trouble.

This is another very absorbing movie from this unique director — a Cannes Palme winner for his film Winter Sleep.