DOCUMENTARIST
18th Istanbul Documentary Days

June 14 - 19, 2025

Pera Film is hosting DOCUMENTARIST 18th Istanbul Documentary Days.

Screenings of the films included in the Turkey Panorama section of the festival take place at the Pera Museum Auditorium. 

Check out the details of the festival here

This program’s screenings are free admission. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

June 14

13:30 Memory-Like: An Oral History of QueerFest

15:30 100: The Story of a Newspaper

From Mardiros Until Now

17:30 In the Shade of the Poplar Tree

June 15

16:00 Block E, No. 5

A Strange Colour of Dream

June 17

15:30 Ezda

Tomato, Pepper, Depression

17:30 Exile Never Ends

June 18

15:30 A Memory of Friendship

Together

17:30 Otherwise in Istanbul

June 19

15:30 Walk of Iris

Radio, My Love

17:30 Hand in Hand: Women from Yırca

Traugott

Memory-Like: An Oral History of QueerFest

Memory-Like: An Oral History of QueerFest

100: The Story of a Newspaper

100: The Story of a Newspaper

From Mardiros Until Now

From Mardiros Until Now

In the Shade of the Poplar Tree

In the Shade of the Poplar Tree

Block E, No. 5

Block E, No. 5

A Strange Colour of Dream

A Strange Colour of Dream

Ezda

Ezda

Tomato, Pepper, Depression

Tomato, Pepper, Depression

Exile Never Ends

Exile Never Ends

A Memory of Friendship

A Memory of Friendship

Together

Together

Otherwise in Istanbul

Otherwise in Istanbul

Walk of Iris

Walk of Iris

Radio, My Love

Radio, My Love

Hand in Hand: Women from Yırca

Hand in Hand: Women from Yırca

Traugott

Traugott

Cindy Sherman Look At Me!

Cindy Sherman Look At Me!

The exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection examines portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Through the exhibition we will be sharing about the artists and sections in Look At Me!.

The First Nudes

The First Nudes

Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’. 

A Solitary Eagle in the Sinai Desert

A Solitary Eagle in the Sinai Desert

John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.