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.
It was a quiet night in the dessert. Even the mice weren’t around. A few LEDs blinked in the dark, and the sound of a fan filled the infinite void. The conversation cutting the silence seemed to go nowhere.
When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.
A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards.
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)
