38th Istanbul Film Festival
Documentary Time

April 5 - 16, 2019

Pera Film is hosting 38th Istanbul Film Festival! As part of the festival Pera Film will be screening the Documentary Time, National Short Film Competition, National Documentary Competition and the program Cinemania, as well as other screenings.

These films handle themes as diverse as politics, diplomacy, justice, economics, sociology, and art, and engage with social transformations to present reality with a unique and striking stylistic approach.

Check out the details here.

April 5

11:00 Chris the Swiss

13:30 Dreamaway

16:00 The Man Who Stole Banksy

21:30 Monrovia, Indiana

April 6

11:00 Young and Alive

April 7

11:00 Circus Rwanda

13:30 Chris the Swiss

16:00 Monrovia, Indiana

19:00 Meeting Gorbachev

April 9

11:00 Meeting Gorbachev

13:30 Don’t Work (1968 – 2018)

16:00 Circus Rwanda

19:00 Putin’s Witnesses

April 11

11:00 The Silence of Others

19:00 Our Defeats

April 12

16:00 Putin’s Witnesses

19:00 The Silence of Others

April 13

13:30 Dreamaway

April 16

11:00 Finding Farideh

Chris the Swiss

Chris the Swiss

Dreamaway

Dreamaway

The Man Who Stole Banksy

The Man Who Stole Banksy

Monrovia, Indiana

Monrovia, Indiana

Young and Alive

Young and Alive

Circus Rwanda

Circus Rwanda

Meeting Gorbachev

Meeting Gorbachev

Don’t Work (1968 – 2018)

Don’t Work (1968 – 2018)

Putin’s Witnesses

Putin’s Witnesses

The Silence of Others

The Silence of Others

Our Defeats

Our Defeats

Finding Farideh

Finding Farideh

Program Trailer

38th Istanbul Film Festival
Documentary Time

These films handle themes as diverse as politics, diplomacy, justice, economics, sociology, and art, and engage with social transformations to present reality with a unique and striking stylistic approach.

Nam June Paik Video Art’s Pioneer

Nam June Paik Video Art’s Pioneer

Nam June Paik was video art’s pioneer (1932 –2006). It is interesting that while Warhol and Nameth were experimenting with psychedelic happenings that combined rock, film and performance, the video art pioneers Nam June Paik, Stephen Beck, Eric Siegel and Steina Vasulka were researching in a similar direction.

Portrait of Martín Zapater (1797)

Portrait of Martín Zapater (1797)

Martín Zapater y Clavería, born in Zaragoza on November 12th 1747, came from a family of modest merchants and was taken in to live with a well-to-do aunt, Juana Faguás, and her daughter, Joaquina de Alduy. He studied with Goya in the Escuelas Pías school in Zaragoza from 1752 to 1757 and a friendship arose between them which was to last until the death of Zapater in 1803. 

Midnight Horror Stories: Pollens, Photosynthesis & Rock ‘N’ Roll <br> Murat Başekim

Midnight Horror Stories: Pollens, Photosynthesis & Rock ‘N’ Roll
Murat Başekim

Pera Museum Blog is launching a new series of creepy stories in collaboration with Turkey’s Fantasy and Science Fiction Arts Association (FABISAD). The Association’s member writers are presenting newly commissioned short horror stories inspired by the artworks of Mario Prassinos as part of the Museum’s In Pursuit of an Artist: Istanbul-Paris-Istanbul exhibition. The third story is by Murat Başekim! The stories will be published online throughout the exhibition. Stay tuned!