a good neighbor Shorts

a good neighbor
36th Istanbul Film Festival

April 9, 2017 / 14:30

Pera Film is hosting 36^th Istanbul Film Festival! As part of the festival Pera Film will be screeningthe National Short Film Competition, the programs a good neighbor and Vincent Dieutre: Exercises in Solitude, as well as other screenings and events.

The Istanbul Film Festival is collaborating with the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, the curators of the 15th edition of the Istanbul Biennial. Elmgreen & Dragset have selected a film program related to this year’s biennial. The biennial, entitled a good neighbour, focuses on homes, neighbors and neighborhoods as departure points to consider society and co-existence on a larger scale. Elmgreen & Dragset’s selection focuses on distinct identities and how people interact with each other within a home, community, neighborhood or village.

Take a look at this program's film list!

Check out the details here.

Ta’ang

In Vanda’s Room

Neighboring Sounds

The White Ribbon

40 Days of Silence

The Apple

Youkali

Toponymy

What Now? Remind Me

Dogville

a good neighbor Shorts

Midnight Horror Stories: The Last Ferry <br> Galip Dursun

Midnight Horror Stories: The Last Ferry
Galip Dursun

I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.

Félix Ziem (1821-1911) A nomadic, unclassifiable, and eccentric artist

French artist Félix Ziem is one of the most original landscape painters of the 19thcentury. 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.

Dancing on Architecture

I think it was Frank Zappa – though others claim it was Laurie Anderson – who said in an interview that ‘writing on music is much like dancing on architecture’.