Pera Film, in collaboration with Altyazı Cinema Magazine, presents the film program Cinéma Vérite: The Truth of the Camera. The selection includes both classic and later examples of the movement, with films from the US and France, as well as Mexico and Chile.

Inspired by a statement from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson in the book “Black Futures”, the selection titled Everyone I Know Is Sick examines how our society excludes disabled and sick people by upholding a false dichotomy of health and sickness.

Within the program's scope, a total of 24 Greek films from the 60s to the 90s will be screened in restored copies for the first time in Turkey.

Nothing brings you into an issue quite like seeing it. As everyday citizens and audiences, we are inundated by and oversaturated with information, but our knowledge is often limited. ReelLife screening series provides an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding through the lens of compelling stories and conversations.

Time sometimes doesn't just flow; it leaves deep wounds. There are no descriptions or prescriptions for both time and wounds. They are immeasurable. Traces of Time: Pjer Žalica focuses on the works of an artist who explores the cinematic representations of these scars, following the searing effects of war in a specific landscape and the traces of past wounds in today's world.

The unloved sibling of dreams, the callous cousin of imagination, the unsettling path of reconciling with the darkness of life lies in the subconscious: nightmares. Pera Film presents its special selection for Halloween, Rhythmic Nightmares, focusing on dark aesthetics, sinister music, and captivating dances that lead us into haunting tales.

The program takes us back to one of the most pivotal points in cinema history, the birth years of Italian Neorealism and traces the radical impacts of war on cities and communities through the War Trilogy filmed by pioneer figure Roberto Rossellini right after World War II.

Taking its title from the verse of American poet Richard Siken's Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, "You want a better story. Who wouldn't want it?", the program focuses on queer characters who thrive to exist in an ideal world while simultaneously creating their own ideal worlds.

The program, curated by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi in collaboration with EYE Filmmuseum, one of Europe's leading film museums, in parallel with International Museum Day, invites the audience on a journey that sheds light on the 128-year history of cinema.

Pera Film presents In the Depths of Souls program from April 11 to May 7, parallel to the exhibition Paula Rego: The Story of Stories that opened at the Pera Museum in December. 

Within the scope of the exhibition Istanbuls Today, which opened at Pera Museum in December, the program includes nine film examples from experimental, documentary and fiction genres. The word “uğrak” (the beaten track), which is thought to originate from the Turkish-Mongolian language family, means to stop by and go. The word uğrak, transformed over the years to mean to make a temporary stop and to go frequently, allows us to show the films that transform Istanbul into a place of a haunt.