Pera Film takes the audience on a cinematographic journey to discover the insights of the territory featured in Pera Museum’s Out of Ink exhibition.
In the Mood for Chinese Cinema provides a composite, contemporary perspective on movies made in and about China in recent years. Presenting a variety of films that tap into the aural, the archival, and the personal, this program offers richly overlapping frameworks that identify key voices, histories, places, influences, and motivations in filmmaking in China.
The program features Jia Zhang Ke’s Mountains May Depart a 2015 Cannes Film Festival competitor opening a window from a family tale over the course of 26 years to China’s rapid modernisation; Bitter Money that jumps between day-to-day moments in the lives of workers who migrated to the factory city of Huzhou in eastern China in search of higher wages; Of Shadows showing the creative world of shadow theatre, and the players who balance their lives and the modern urban idea of a cultural heritage that has to be preserved; Dragonfly Eyes delivering a commentary on (in)visibility, our obsessive media culture and contemporary China; People’s Republic of Desire, a real-life Black Mirror story about searching for fame, fortune and human connection online; and a Teddy Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival, A Dog Barking at the Moon that tells the tale of suppressed desire, the social importance of marriage, and the frostiness that exists between the walls of a wealthy Chinese family home.
Screening tickets are 10 TL (reduced museum admission). Tickets are available at Biletix. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.
April 19
19:00 People's Republic of Desire
21:00 A Dog Barking at the Moon
April 21
16:00 Bitter Money
May 3
21:00 People's Republic of Desire
May 4
16:00 Mountains May Depart
May 5
15:00 Of Shadows
May 7
19:00 Dragonfly Eyes
May 9
19:00 Bitter Money
May 12
16:00 Of Shadows
May 16
19:00 A Dog Barking at the Moon
May 17
16:00 Mountains May Depart
19:00 Dragonfly Eyes
May 25
16:00 Mountains May Depart
April 19
19:00 People's Republic of Desire
21:00 A Dog Barking at the Moon
April 21
16:00 Bitter Money
May 3
21:00 People's Republic of Desire
May 4
16:00 Mountains May Depart
May 5
15:00 Of Shadows
May 7
19:00 Dragonfly Eyes
May 9
19:00 Bitter Money
May 12
16:00 Of Shadows
May 16
19:00 A Dog Barking at the Moon
May 17
19:00 Dragonfly Eyes
May 25
16:00 Mountains May Depart
Program Trailer
The Bosphorus, which divides the city from north to south, separates two continents, renders Istanbul distinct for western painters, offers the most picturesque spectacles for western artists.
He didn’t expect this from me. And I hadn’t expected that we would decide to get married that day, at that moment. Everything happened all of a sudden, but exactly like it was supposed to happen in our day. We thought of the idea of marriage simultaneously, we smiled simultaneously, blinking and opening our eyes in unison.
We, by which I mean some of my classmates and I, knew about Paula Rego. I’ll have to admit, I didn’t know where Rego was from or even where in Europe Portugal was. I thought she was English. Let me tell you how I first heard the very un-English sounding name “Paula Rego”
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)
