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

Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula in 18th and 19th Century Paintings

Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula in 18th and 19th Century Paintings

With the Topkapı Palace, the center of political authority until the 19th century, and many other examples of classical Ottoman and Byzantine architecture included in its premise the Historical Peninsula is the heart of the Empire. 

Is he sping on us?  <br>Vajiko Chachkhiani

Is he sping on us?
Vajiko Chachkhiani

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.

Medicinal Herbs in Byzantium

Medicinal Herbs in Byzantium

Knowledge of plants and the practice of healing are closely entwined. The toxic or hallucinogenic nature of some roots, and the dangers associated with picking them, conferred a mythical or magical character and power.