Special Screening: Aftersun
Special Screening: Aftersun
16 - December 23, 2022

Pera Film presents Aftersun, one of the most talked about films of 2022, with a special screening.

I’m Here!
I’m Here!
1 - December 15, 2022

Pera Film, launched every year to raise awareness on World AIDS Day, I’m here! continues this year with the selection of Visual AIDS, a contemporary art organization.

Sustainable Living Film Festival
Sustainable Living Film Festival
22 - November 26, 2022

Pera Film is hosting the 15th Sustainable Living Film Festival. The festival’s program includes 25 films.

Václav Havel: Living in Freedom
Václav Havel: Living in Freedom
26 - October 27, 2022

As part of the Václav Havel Weeks, Pera Film in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Istanbul present Václav Havel: Living in Freedom a biographic documentary dedicated to the personality and legacy of Václav Havel.

11th Pink Life QueerFest
11th Pink Life QueerFest
14 - October 16, 2022

Pera Film is hosting the 11th Pink Life QueerFest. The festival’s program includes 16 films.

17th Istanbul Biennial
17th Istanbul Biennial
September 17 - November 19, 2022

Pera Film is hosting the film program of the 17th Istanbul Biennial. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar and David Teh, the program includes 22 films.

Special Screening: Censor
Special Screening: Censor
6 - August 7, 2022

Pera Film presents Censor, a special screening parallel to the exhibition, And Now the Good News opened in April at Pera Museum.

 

Kogonada: Video Essays
Kogonada: Video Essays
16 - July 17, 2022

In collaboration with Başka Sinema, Pera Museum presents video essays by After Yang director, Kogonada! Director of the acclaimed Columbus, his first feature-length film, and After Yang, which premiered at the Istanbul Film Festival and released on July 1 by Başka Sinema, Kogonada is now at Pera Museum with his series of video essays

Companionship As a Site of Resistance
Companionship As a Site of Resistance
June 24 - July 8, 2022

Pera Film celebrates Pride Week with its film program entitled Companionship As a Site of Resistance.
In the program that brought together four films from different geographies, which met with the audience at important festivals in the past years, the theme of clinging to life together comes to the fore. 

Greek Film Days
Greek Film Days
7 - June 12, 2022

Pera Museum is hosting the Greek Film Days, which will take place for the first time in Turkey, where uniqueand award-winning films from auteurs of Greek cinema will be screened. Organized in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Greek Film Center and the Hellenic Film Academy, the program offers a rich selection of 17 films in total, including cult films by auteurs such as Theo Angelopoulos (Reconstruction) and Costa Gavras (Z).

Striking Daily Lives: Etgar Keret
Striking Daily Lives: Etgar Keret
11 - May 31, 2022

The famous Israeli writer Etgar Keret, is known for combining real and fantastic elements in his short stories that know no boundaries in their creativity. For the first time in Turkey, Pera Film presents a retrospective of Etgar Keret, a well-known short story writer, filmmaker and screenwriter, with a screening program of the films he directed, as well as TV series and films based on his stories.

John Akomfrah: Memory Rooms
John Akomfrah: Memory Rooms
15 - April 30, 2022

Pera Film presents an online selection of the single-channel works of the artist, director, curator John Akomfrah as part of SENKRON 'Simultaneous Video Exhibitions'

41st Istanbul Film Festival
41st Istanbul Film Festival
8 - April 19, 2022

Pera Film is hosting 41th Istanbul Film Festival! As part of the festival, the 17th Istanbul Biennial’s selection titled Rather Than a Great Tree, Laden With Sweet, Ripe Fruit meets the audience at the Pera Museum Auditorium.

Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words
Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words
16 - March 23, 2022

Pera Film is hosting the screening of the documentary Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words, directed by Tom Volf, dedicated to the great soprano Maria Callas, in collaboration with the Greek Consulate General in Istanbul. 

Strong Together
Strong Together
March 8 - April 8, 2022

Pera Film, in collaboration with #SusmaBitsin, presents the program Strong Together, specially prepared for March 8, International Women's Day. 

Sailing to Byzantium
Sailing to Byzantium
February 28 - March 20, 2022

Pera Film presents Sailing to Byzantium, an online film program parallel to the exhibitions, From Istanbul to Byzantium and “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!” at Pera Museum.

Memorial for the Lost Pages
Memorial for the Lost Pages
February 21 - March 7, 2022

In the Memorial for the Lost Pages, there are 9 different experimental films that examine the ways of making sense of the world in times of uncertainty, and draw a path from solution to knot, from documentation to creativity by taking the collective memory as a starting point.