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

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Published as part of Pera Learning programs, “The Little Yellow Circle (Küçük Sarı Daire)” is a children’s book written by Tania Bahar and illustrated by Marina Rico, offering children and adults to a novel learning experience where they can share and discover together.

Moscow Conceptualists

Moscow Conceptualists

Our institutions have been stuck on linear Neo-Platonic tracks for 24 centuries. These antiquated processes of deduction have lost their authority. Just like art it has fallen off its pedestal. Legal, educational and constitutional systems rigidly subscribe to these; they are 100% text based.

The Success of an Artist

The Success of an Artist

Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined.