Svenska!
Contemporary Swedish Cinema

March 8 - 29, 2014

Pera Film parallel to Pera Museum’s Aurora: Contemporary Nordic Glass Art temporary exhibition is presenting the film program Svenska! Contemporary Swedish Cinema. This selection focuses in particular on the cinema of Sweden; the selected eight films from the past three years explore different themes and topics through impressive, fresh and vibrant storytelling. Organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of Sweden in İstanbul, the program gives a great insight into the current state of filmmaking and creativity in Sweden.

  

in collaboration

March 8

14:00 Behind Blue Skies

16:00 The Ice Dragon

18:00 The Last Sentence

March 9

13:00 Avalon

15:00 Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

17:00 Palme

March 12

19:00 TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

March 13

19:00 Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

March 14

19:00 Call Girl

March 27

19:00 Behind Blue Skies

March 28

19:00 Palme

21:00 Avalon

March 29

12:00 The Ice Dragon

14:00 TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

16:00 Call Girl

19:00 The Last Sentence

Avalon

Avalon

Behind Blue Skies

Behind Blue Skies

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Call Girl

Call Girl

Palme

Palme

The Ice Dragon

The Ice Dragon

The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

Program Trailer

Svenska!
Contemporary Swedish Cinema

This selection focuses in particular on the cinema of Sweden; the selected eight films from the past three years explore different themes and topics through impressive, fresh and vibrant storytelling. The program gives a great insight into the current state of filmmaking and creativity in Sweden.

Aurora

The glass artists hailing from Northern European countries, presented us here in İstanbul with contemporary interpretations of glass, a material inherited from past cultures.

Aurora

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

Between 1963 and 1966 Andy Warhol worked at making film portraits of all sorts of characters linked to New York art circles. Famous people and anonymous people were filmed by Andy Warhol’s 16 mm camera, for almost four minutes, without any instructions other than ‘to get in front of the camera’.

Contemporary Ceramics From Around the World: 10 Artists, 10 Works

Contemporary Ceramics From Around the World: 10 Artists, 10 Works

Although traditionally used as a medium for functional or decorative objects, ceramic has become a medium that is increasingly used by contemporary. Here is the work of some important contemporary ceramic artists from around the world!

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.