11th Pink Life QueerFest

October 14 - 16, 2022

Pera Film is hosting the 11th Pink Life QueerFest. The festival’s program includes 16 films.

This program’s screenings are free admissions. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

October 14

12:00 Circus of Life

15:00 Popo Fan Films Selection

17:30 Besties

19:30 Love, Deutschmarks and Death

October 15

12:30 Blooming on the Asphalt

16:30 Criminal Queers

18:00 Potato Dreams of America

Walking After Midnight

October 16

12:30 How the Room Felt

14:15 Our Story

17:00 Queer Shorts From Turkey

Circus of Life

Circus of Life

Popo Fan Films Selection

Popo Fan Films Selection

Besties

Besties

Love, Deutschmarks and Death

Love, Deutschmarks and Death

Blooming on the Asphalt

Blooming on the Asphalt

Potato Dreams of America

Potato Dreams of America

Criminal Queers

Criminal Queers

Walking After Midnight

Walking After Midnight

How the Room Felt

How the Room Felt

 Our Story

Our Story

Queer Shorts From Turkey

Queer Shorts From Turkey

Queer Film Festivals Special Session

Queer Film Festivals Special Session

After the harsh conditions of the pandemic, the 11th Pink Life QueerFest is bringing together the queer film festivals from Beijing, Pakistan, and Turkey. 

Fiery and Daring: Lale Mansur

Fiery and Daring: Lale Mansur

One of the protagonists of unusual and unconventional female roles and stories in the cinema of Turkey with the films she has acted in, Lale Mansur meets the audience within the scope of the 11th Pink Life QueerFest.

At the Order of the Padishah

At the Order of the Padishah

In this piece, Żmurko presents an exotic image of a harem chamber, replete with gleaming fabrics and scattered jewels, as a setting for the statuesquely beautiful body of an odalisque murdered “at the order of the padishah”. 

Souvenirs of the Future

Souvenirs of the Future

You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.

Midnight Horror Stories: The Last Ferry <br> Galip Dursun

Midnight Horror Stories: The Last Ferry
Galip Dursun

I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.