While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts

a film by Peter Mettler / Switzerland/Canada / 2025 / 434 minutes

Soon to be released in its entirety in 2025, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts is Peter Mettler’s most intimate film to date.

In his audio-visual diary, award-winning filmmaker Peter Mettler looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. His meditative approach and sensitive camera searches, remembers, and creates a generous space to expose the fragility and profound nature of relationships, where reflections about the human condition and our environment follow one another in a stream of consciousness.

At times tragic or comedic, philosophical or poetic, the diary is laced with psychedelic and experimental imagery and sound that enhance its trance-like feel. Combining personal conversations, reflection, family history, memoir, homage, and love, Mettler takes the documentary form somewhere it hasn’t been before. 

A work of maturity and the director’s most intimate film to date that interrogates our universal human destiny with grace and generosity.

For further info please contact producer Maximage at info@maximage.ch.

Length: approx 7h 14 min / 434 min
Year of Completion: final rough cut stage  /  2025
Director: Peter Mettler
Writer: Peter Mettler
Editor: Jordan Kawai, Peter Mettler
Producers: Cornelia Seitler, Peter Mettler, Brigitte Hofer
Country: Switzerland, Canada
Production Companies: maximage GmbH, Grimthorpe Film Inc