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

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The series of paintings depicting the audience ceremonies of European ambassadors hold a unique place among the works of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour of Valenciennes, who lived in İstanbul from 1699 until his death in 1737.

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Byzantine medical art was grounded in the Greco-Roman medicine transmitted by Hippocrates and Galen and new concepts introduced by such physicians as Oribasios of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina. 

Midnight Stories: The Soul <br> Aşkın Güngör

Midnight Stories: The Soul
Aşkın Güngör

The wind blows, rubbing against my legs made of layers of metal and wires, swaying the leaves of grass that have shot up from the cracks in the tarmac, and going off to the windows that look like the eyes of dead children in the wrecked buildings that seem to be everywhere as far as the eye can see.