a good neighbor
36th Istanbul Film Festival

April 5 - 9, 2017

Pera Film is hosting 36th 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.


Check out the details here.

April 5

11:00 The Apple

13:30 Toponymy

16:00 Ta’ang

19:00 40 Days of Silence

April 6

11:00 Neighboring Sounds

13:30 Youkali

16:00 In Vanda’s Room

19:00 Toponymy

April 7

11:00 40 Days of Silence

19:00 Dogville

April 8

11:00 Youkali

16:00 The White Ribbon

19:00 What Now? Remind Me

April 9

11:00 In Vanda’s Room

14:30 a good neighbor Shorts

16:00 Ta’ang

Ta’ang

Ta’ang

In Vanda’s Room

In Vanda’s Room

Neighboring Sounds

Neighboring Sounds

The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

40 Days of Silence

40 Days of Silence

The Apple

The Apple

Youkali

Youkali

Toponymy

Toponymy

What Now? Remind Me

What Now? Remind Me

Dogville

Dogville

a good neighbor Shorts

a good neighbor Shorts

Program Trailer

a good neighbor
36th Istanbul Film Festival

15th edition of the Istanbul Biennial, entitled a good neighbour, focuses on homes, neighbors and neighborhoods as departure points to consider society and co-existence on a larger scale.

15th Istanbul Biennial

Pera Museum hosted the 15th Istanbul Biennial, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding. The 15th Istanbul Biennial brought together artworks by 55 artists from 32 countries, all addressing different notions of home, belonging and neighbourhood.

15th Istanbul Biennial

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier. 

The Search for Form

The Search for Form

A series of small and rather similar nudes Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and Eren Eyüboğlu produced in the early 1930s almost resemble a ‘visual conversation’ that focus on a pictorial search. It is also possible to find the visual reflections of this earlier search in the synthesis Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu reached with his stylistic abstractions in the 1950s.

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

A Salon exhibition held in the Grand Palais in Paris on May 1, 1906 showcased an Ottoman painting. This was Osman Hamdi Bey’s famous “Tortoise Trainer”.