I’m Here!

December 1 - 15, 2022

Pera Film, launched every year to raise awareness on World AIDS Day, I’m here! continues this year with the selection of Visual AIDS, a contemporary art organization.

Being & Belonging is a program of seven short videos from artists living with HIV across the world. From navigating sex and intimacy to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

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.

December 1

19:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 2

20:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 9

20:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 15

19:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

Vertical Memory

Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Nuance

Los Amarillos

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

Lxs dxs bichudas

Fluid Rego

Fluid Rego

While Paula Rego belatedly was recognised as one of the leading feminist pioneers of her age, little has been written about her exploration of fluid sexuality. Indeed the current of sado-masochism in her drawings and paintings, has tended to encourage an understanding as a classic clash between the patriarchy and exploited women.

Midnight Horror Stories: <br> Witches’ Sun <br> Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

Midnight Horror Stories:
Witches’ Sun
Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

I walk over rocks hot as iron under the September sun. I can make out a few lines in the distance, and a few cracked rocks, but apart from those, not a single tree, not one plant

The Battle of Varna

The Battle of Varna

Over the years of 1864 through 1876, Stanisław Chlebowski served Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul as his court painter. As it was, Abdülaziz disposed of considerable artistic talents of his own, and he actively involved himself in Chlebowski’s creative process, suggesting ideas for compositions –such as ballistic pieces praising the victories of Turkish arms.