Director: Bahar Bektaş
Almanya, 2024, 99’, DCP, color
Turkish, German with Turkish, English subtitles
Bahar´s brother Taner is serving in prison in Germany and is about to be deported to Turkey. Bahar uses the time of waiting for her brother´s deportation to hold the camera on her family members. She explores the family’s emotional and geographical worlds of uprooting and new beginnings between Germany and Turkey in calm and sensitive imagery. With this film, Bahar claims a territory for her family while being squeezed between two countries and a state of in-between.
In conversations with her parents Yıldız and Mustafa, as well as her brothers Taner and Onur, she embarks on a painful journey into the past. Political persecution of the Alevi-Kurdish family in Turkey, the flight to Europe in 1989, several racist attacks, depression and overburdening of the parents – all this affected the children, who deal with it in different ways. The uncertainty of Taner´s fate in Turkey is just the mirror of their life experience as a family in exile. The distortion of past and presence and different geographies confront the audience with one of the attributes of exile, which is losingthe orientation in time and space.
The crew will attend.
Published as part of Pera Learning programs, “The Little Yellow Circle (Küçük Sarı Daire)” is a children’s book written by Tania Bahar and illustrated by Marina Rico, offering children and adults to a novel learning experience where they can share and discover together.
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
Selected from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection, we present the landscapes and places in Istanbul photographs, dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, together with their present-day views!
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
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