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
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
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
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.
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.
Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
