Taking its title from the verse of American poet Richard Siken's Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, "You want a better story. Who wouldn't want it?", the program focuses on queer characters who thrive to exist in an ideal world while simultaneously creating their own ideal worlds.

The program, curated by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi in collaboration with EYE Filmmuseum, one of Europe's leading film museums, in parallel with International Museum Day, invites the audience on a journey that sheds light on the 128-year history of cinema.

Pera Film presents In the Depths of Souls program from April 11 to May 7, parallel to the exhibition Paula Rego: The Story of Stories that opened at the Pera Museum in December. 

Within the scope of the exhibition Istanbuls Today, which opened at Pera Museum in December, the program includes nine film examples from experimental, documentary and fiction genres. The word “uğrak” (the beaten track), which is thought to originate from the Turkish-Mongolian language family, means to stop by and go. The word uğrak, transformed over the years to mean to make a temporary stop and to go frequently, allows us to show the films that transform Istanbul into a place of a haunt.