Pera Museum welcomes Greek Film Days, bringing classic and award-winning films together from the creative directors of Greek cinema in Istanbul for the second time.
Greek Film Days, organized in partnership with EMEIS Cultural Collective from Greece and istos film and istos publishing from Turkey, will take place at the Pera Museum Auditorium on November 21-26, 2023. Within the scope of the film program, a total of 24 films from the 60s to the 90s will meet the audience for the first time in Turkey with restored copies.
Opening with Jules Dassin's extraordinary film The Rehearsal (1988), which he shot secretly in a basement, the program also includes classics such as Theo Angelopoulos' four-hour epic masterpiece The Travelling Players (1975), considered the pinnacle of the New Greek Cinema, and Dimos Avdeliodis' award-winning impressive coming-of-age film The Tree We Hurt (1986). Focusing on themes of collective memory, human rights, migration and diaspora, the program also brings together landmark examples of Greek documentary cinema such as Megara (1972), Last Stop Kreuzberg (1975) and Macedonian Wedding (1960).
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.
November 21
19:00 The Rehearsal
November 22
13:00 Rom
15:00 Meteor & Shadow
17:30 Fournoi, A Female Society
19:00 Athinai
November 23
13:00 Megara
15:30 Children of Helidona
18:00 Doxobus
November 24
13:00 The Tree We Hurt
15:00 Theofilos
17:30 The Other Letter
19:30 The Travelling Players
November 25
11:00 Short Film Selection
15:30 Happy Day
18:30 See You
November 26
19:00 Byron: Ballad for a Daemon
November 21
19:00 The Rehearsal
November 22
13:00 Rom
15:00 Meteor & Shadow
17:30 Fournoi, A Female Society
19:00 Athinai
November 23
13:00 Megara
15:30 Children of Helidona
18:00 Doxobus
November 24
13:00 The Tree We Hurt
15:00 Theofilos
17:30 The Other Letter
19:30 The Travelling Players
November 25
11:00 Short Film Selection
15:30 Happy Day
18:30 See You
November 26
19:00 Byron: Ballad for a Daemon
Eva Stefani, the renowned figure of the Greek avant-garde, conducts a masterclass discussing the documentary’s position in cinema as an independent artistic creation.
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
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.
Louis Isadore Kahn was born in 1901 to a Jewish family in Pärnu, Russia (today Estonia), far from Philadelphia where he spent his whole life, worked, fell in love, and breathed his last. Kahn family emigrated to America when he was five years old.
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)
