Svenska!
Contemporary Swedish Cinema

March 8 - 29, 2014

Pera Film parallel to Pera Museum’s Aurora: Contemporary Nordic Glass Art temporary exhibition is presenting the film program Svenska! Contemporary Swedish Cinema. This selection focuses in particular on the cinema of Sweden; the selected eight films from the past three years explore different themes and topics through impressive, fresh and vibrant storytelling. Organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of Sweden in İstanbul, the program gives a great insight into the current state of filmmaking and creativity in Sweden.

  

in collaboration

March 8

14:00 Behind Blue Skies

16:00 The Ice Dragon

18:00 The Last Sentence

March 9

13:00 Avalon

15:00 Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

17:00 Palme

March 12

19:00 TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

March 13

19:00 Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

March 14

19:00 Call Girl

March 27

19:00 Behind Blue Skies

March 28

19:00 Palme

21:00 Avalon

March 29

12:00 The Ice Dragon

14:00 TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

16:00 Call Girl

19:00 The Last Sentence

Avalon

Avalon

Behind Blue Skies

Behind Blue Skies

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Call Girl

Call Girl

Palme

Palme

The Ice Dragon

The Ice Dragon

The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard

Program Trailer

Svenska!
Contemporary Swedish Cinema

This selection focuses in particular on the cinema of Sweden; the selected eight films from the past three years explore different themes and topics through impressive, fresh and vibrant storytelling. The program gives a great insight into the current state of filmmaking and creativity in Sweden.

Aurora

The glass artists hailing from Northern European countries, presented us here in İstanbul with contemporary interpretations of glass, a material inherited from past cultures.

Aurora

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.

 Who Is Pablo Picasso?

Who Is Pablo Picasso?

Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso’s full name takes about two lines: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso.

The Notions of Race Fred Wilson

The Notions of Race Fred Wilson

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.