Director: Kim Longinotto
Cast: Rajathi Salma
United Kingdom, India
2013, Blu-Ray, Color, 90’, Tamil
English and Turkish Subtitles
Salma living in a Muslim Hindu village is house –in accordance with the tradition- shut into the when she has menstruation. She spends nine years locked in a small room. She expresses her pain and anger in the poems she writes on pieces of paper she collects, and makes them heard in the outside world. The film is about the things that happened after Salma, one of the famous poets of Tamil who inspires the woman in South India with her poems, returns to her village.
Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.
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
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
