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

Baby King

Baby King

1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Byzantine medical art was grounded in the Greco-Roman medicine transmitted by Hippocrates and Galen and new concepts introduced by such physicians as Oribasios of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina. 

A Carriage and a Squat House  <br>Liliana Maresca

A Carriage and a Squat House
Liliana Maresca

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.