Cinéma Vérité: The Truth of the Camera

December 15 - January 10, 2024

Pera Film, in collaboration with Altyazı Cinema Magazine and curated by Aslı Ildır, presents the film program Cinéma Vérité: The Truth of the Camera.

Cinéma Vérité, the same as Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov's term Kino Pravda, is a kind of "truth of cinema experiment" that first emerged with Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronicle of a Summer. This movement, in which the presence of the camera is felt and intervenes and changes what happens in the frame, and in which the director interacts with the participants and asks them questions, aims to question the reality that the camera constructs and represents, or the "truth of cinema". The selection includes both classic and later examples of the movement, with films from the US and France, as well as Mexico and Chile. 

Film screenings within this program are accessible with a discounted museum entrance ticket. Tickets can be obtained from Biletix or the reception of Pera Museum. In accordance with legal regulations, all screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age unless stated otherwise.

December 15

20:00 Chronicle of a Summer

December 16

16:00 Unfinished Diary

December 17

15:00 The Lovely Month of May

December 20

19:00 Chronicle of a Summer

December 23

16:00 Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

December 30

16:00 The Devil Never Sleeps

January 3

19:00 Unfinished Diary

January 5

20:00 Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

January 6

16:00 The Lovely Month of May

January 10

19:00 The Devil Never Sleeps

Chronicle of a Summer

Chronicle of a Summer

Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

The Devil Never Sleeps

The Devil Never Sleeps

Unfinished Diary

Unfinished Diary

The Lovely Month of May

The Lovely Month of May

Academician Can Candan on "Cinéma Vérité"

Academician Can Candan on "Cinéma Vérité"

Pera Film, within the scope of the Cinéma Vérité: The Truth of the Camera film program, is conducting an conversation with documentary filmmaker and academician Can Candan, moderated by film critic Aslı Ildır.

Souvenirs of the Future

Souvenirs of the Future

You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.

Midnight Horror Stories:  The Moon Pool <br> Işın Beril Tetik

Midnight Horror Stories: The Moon Pool
Işın Beril Tetik

About a year ago, Ela was dead for seven minutes. Death had come to her as she was watching her younger brother play gleefully in the sandpit at the park. A sudden flash that washed her world with a burning white light, a merciless roar resembling that of a monster… 

Portrait of Martín Zapater (1797)

Portrait of Martín Zapater (1797)

Martín Zapater y Clavería, born in Zaragoza on November 12th 1747, came from a family of modest merchants and was taken in to live with a well-to-do aunt, Juana Faguás, and her daughter, Joaquina de Alduy. He studied with Goya in the Escuelas Pías school in Zaragoza from 1752 to 1757 and a friendship arose between them which was to last until the death of Zapater in 1803.