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.
Two chapters of the film were screened at the 2023 editions of Visions du Réel and the Montreal International Documentary Festival, winning the Grand Prize at Visions du Réel and the Grand Prize in the National Feature competition at RIDM.Pat Mullen, "While the Green Grass Grows, Knit’s Island Lead RIDM Winners". Point of View, November 26, 2023.
The full film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
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."Pat Mullen, "While the Green Grass Grows Review: Or, the Endlessness of Time". Point of View, September 8, 2025.
See also List of longest films
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