Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy;
it is absolutely essential to it.
― Howard Zinn
Pera Film opens its 2013 fall season with a striking program - A Farewell to Arms: Stories of Civil Resistance. The program’s title is inspired from one of the greatest American novels to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway published in 1929. Just as the novel explored the beautiful and the tragic, the tender and the harsh, and the realistic, the selected films of the program examine recent stories of civil resistance – from 1985 onwards - in a corresponding poetic as well as genuine approach.
The program is presented with six feature-length documentaries accompanied by a shorts program entitled A Short Walk in the Park. Civil resistance is often a response to changes in constellations of power; the documentaries originating from different countries such as Turkey, the US, United Kingdom, Germany and Iran; all deal with the people, the public and their interpretation of current politics and social issues. At times the stories stem from the masses, at other times the stories evolve from the individual’s point of view.
September 4
19:00 Tous au Larzac
September 6
Occupy: The Movie
September 7
13:00 The Network
15:00 Better This World
17:00 The Green Wave
18:00 The Gate of Heavenly Peace
September 8
14:00 Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
16:00 F*ck for Forest
18:00 The Network
September 10
14:00 Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
September 19
19:00 Tous au Larzac
September 28
13:00 Handsworth Songs
14:00 The Green Wave
16:00
A Short Walk in the Park
Shorts
19:00 Better This World
September 29
13:00 Occupy: The Movie
Handsworth Songs
15:00 F*ck for Forest
18:00
A Short Walk in the Park
Shorts
19:00 The Gate of Heavenly Peace
September 4
19:00 Tous au Larzac
September 6
19:00 Occupy: The Movie
September 7
13:00 The Network
15:00 Better This World
17:00 The Green Wave
18:00 The Gate of Heavenly Peace
September 8
14:00 Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
16:00 F*ck for Forest
18:00 The Network
September 10
14:00 Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits
September 19
19:00 Tous au Larzac
September 28
13:00 Handsworth Songs
14:00 The Green Wave
16:00
A Short Walk in the Park
Shorts
19:00 Better This World
September 29
13:00 Occupy: The Movie
Handsworth Songs
15:00 F*ck for Forest
18:00
A Short Walk in the Park
Shorts
19:00 The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Program Trailer
The program’s title is inspired from, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Just as the novel explored the beautiful and the tragic, the tender and the harsh, and the realistic, the selected films of the program examine recent stories of civil resistance – from 1985 onwards - in a corresponding poetic as well as genuine approach.
The Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Orientalist Painting Collection includes two children’s portraits that are often featured in exhibitions on the second floor of the Pera Museum. These portraits both date back to the early 20th century, and were made four years apart. One depicts Prince Abdürrahim Efendi, son of Sultan Abdulhamid II, while the figure portrayed on the other is Nazlı, the daughter of Osman Hamdi Bey.
The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.
Works by a large number of students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo deal with current and often painful themes from the socio-political, economic and cultural reality, raising awareness, appealing, warning, opening issues and offering new interpretations.
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