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.

The Captive Sultan

The Captive Sultan

The war fought by the Greeks to shake off the Turkish yoke was closely observed around Europe and, this being the era of romanticism, the events taking place around Greece between 1821 and 1832 became a symbol for national liberation struggle.

Paula Rego in Istanbul!

Paula Rego in Istanbul!

We, by which I mean some of my classmates and I, knew about Paula Rego. I’ll have to admit, I didn’t know where Rego was from or even where in Europe Portugal was. I thought she was English. Let me tell you how I first heard the very un-English sounding name “Paula Rego”

Midnight Horror Stories: <br> Witches’ Sun <br> Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

Midnight Horror Stories:
Witches’ Sun
Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

I walk over rocks hot as iron under the September sun. I can make out a few lines in the distance, and a few cracked rocks, but apart from those, not a single tree, not one plant