Pera Film is celebrating International Women's Day 2017 throughout the month of March. The program Women in Russian Cinema celebrates women on screen and behind-the-scenes with seven films selected from 20th century and recent productions of Russian cinema. Presented in collaboration with Seagull Films, the program cherishes women directors as well as strong female characters on screen. The films directed by women include Wings, The Ascent, The Tuner, Travelling with Pets and Everybody Dies But Me. Although not directed by women, the films The Cranes Are Flying and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears entail powerful depictions of female characters through turbulent times.
The career of Larisa Shepitko, an icon of sixties and seventies Soviet cinema, was tragically cut short when she was killed in a car crash at age forty, just as she was emerging on the international scene. The body of work she left behind, though small, is masterful, and her genius for visually evoking characters’ interior worlds is never more striking than in her two greatest works: Wings, an intimate yet exhilarating portrait of a female fighter pilot turned provincial headmistress, and The Ascent, a gripping, tragic wartime parable of betrayal and martyrdom. A true artist who had deftly used the Soviet film industry to make statements both personal and universal, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung filmmakers of all time. The Cranes are Flying focuses on Veronica played by the beautiful Tatiana Samoilova, a strong level-headed individual who suddenly gets struck with a traumatic and devastating experience when losing her entire family in an air raid bombing. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is Vladimir Menshov's enchanting drama of three women struggling to establish themselves in Russia's huge and often impersonal capital city. Former actress Vera Storozheva (a frequent collaborator with famed filmmaker Kira Muratova) shows considerable skill as director, echoing Natalia’s awakening in a soundtrack that leaves the creaks and disordered noises of a mechanical environment for a more harmonious and natural one, and in cinematographer Oleg Lukichev’s remarkable images, whose drab winter grays give way to a vibrant springtime palette. But it’s Kutepova as Natalia who truly puts the spark in this invigorating example of feminist cinema. Everybody Dies But Me is the first debut from young director Valeriya Gay Germanika.
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March 18
02:00 Travelling with Pets
04:00 The Tuner
March 19
02:00 The Tuner
March 22
07:00 Everybody Dies But Me
March 24
19:00 Wings
21:00 The Ascent
March 25
02:00 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
06:00 Wings
March 31
19:00 The Ascent
21:00 The Cranes Are Flying
April 1
02:00 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
02:00 Travelling with Pets
04:00 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
April 2
14:00 The Cranes Are Flying
16:00 Everybody Dies But Me
March 18
14:00 Travelling with Pets
16:00 The Tuner
March 19
14:00 The Tuner
March 22
19:00 Everybody Dies But Me
March 24
19:00 Wings
21:00 The Ascent
March 25
14:00 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
18:00 Wings
March 31
19:00 The Ascent
21:00 The Cranes Are Flying
April 1
14:00 Travelling with Pets
16:00 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
April 2
14:00 The Cranes Are Flying
16:00 Everybody Dies But Me
Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined. Through the exhibition, we will be sharing detailed information about the artist and the artworks.
This is one of Stanisław Chlebowski’s larger canvasses dealing with themes other than battles; only Ottoman Life at the Sweet Waters now at the Istanbul Military Museum can compare with it in size.
Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso’s full name takes about two lines: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso.
Tuesday - Friday 11.00 - 18.00
The museum is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 25 TL
Discounted: 10 TL
Groups: 20 TL (10 people or more)
