Pera Film is greeting 2017 with the program Destination: Balkans. Presented parallel to Pera Museum’s on-going exhibition Cold Front from the Balkans the program offers a different perspective into the region. The selection explores the various cinematic road journeys to or through the Balkans.
The Destination: Balkans’ selection predominantly includes Western European and American productions that discover this region through an outside eye. Welcome to Sarajevo and Harrison’s Flowers looks at two different wars on the same land through the eyes of journalists, while Twice Born and In the Land of Blood and Honey dives into the loves and families of those who are war torn. Some of the films focus on the aftermath of the war: A young man is sent to Bucharest by his mother’s ghost in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman; two young Italians are united in Romania because of the economical crisis in Banat (The Journey) and a king tries to save his kingdom in the mockumentary King of the Belgians. The Balkan made productions include: Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s story of a Bosnian man returning home from exile in Cirkus Columbia; Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev focuses on an attacked Turkish family on the road and two Bulgarian brothers in his first feature film Eastern Plays.
Destination: Balkans brings hope, peace and humor from the roads of the land of war and love through the countries of Romania, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Serbia.
January 13
19:00 In the Land of Blood and Honey
January 14
16:00 Twice Born
January 15
14:00 Eastern Plays
16:00 The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
January 18
17:00 Cirkus Columbia
19:00 Banat (The Journey)
January 19
Welcome to Sarajevo
January 20
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
21:00 King of the Belgians
January 21
14:00 Twice Born
17:30 Banat (The Journey)
19:00 Cirkus Columbia
January 22
14:00 Harrison’s Flowers
16:30 In the Land of Blood and Honey
January 24
19:00 Welcome to Sarajevo
January 25
17:00 Eastern Plays
19:00 King of the Belgians
January 13
19:00 In the Land of Blood and Honey
January 14
16:00 Twice Born
January 15
14:00 Eastern Plays
16:00 The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
January 18
17:00 Cirkus Columbia
19:00 Banat (The Journey)
January 19
19:00 Welcome to Sarajevo
January 20
19:00 The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
21:00 King of the Belgians
January 21
14:00 Twice Born
17:30 Banat (The Journey)
19:00 Cirkus Columbia
January 22
14:00 Harrison’s Flowers
16:30 In the Land of Blood and Honey
January 24
19:00 Welcome to Sarajevo
January 25
17:00 Eastern Plays
19:00 King of the Belgians
January 31
19:00 Harrison’s Flowers
Program Trailer
Knowledge of plants and the practice of healing are closely entwined. The toxic or hallucinogenic nature of some roots, and the dangers associated with picking them, conferred a mythical or magical character and power.
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.
Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. This week we are sharing Ziem’s work inspired by Istanbul and “the East”!
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