• Support Othon

    Othon Cinema is a platform based in Istanbul that organizes film screenings and cinema talks while producing work in various fields related to cinema. Any support you provide for the…

  • Neşet Günal’s Earth Men

    The result of a long and meticulous effort. A different approach to the world of painting. A concrete example of achieving mastery on the edge of impossibilities. A striking document of the dominance of cinematic art over painting.

  • Interview with Lav Diaz

    Just make cinema. Understand life more. Go to the streets and live in the streets. Don’t stay in your air-conditioned room, because the world is going to be fucked.

  • Bestowal

    The film depicts where life can begin and where it can lead for a filmmaker, and in the journey between existence and non-existence, it illustrates where the mind and heart can reach through the medium of cinema.

• Interviews•

  • Interview with Christian Petzold

    No one starts from scratch. Anyone who writes a book has, after all, also read books. Films don’t simply arise in one’s head; they emerge from connections, from proximity.

  • Interview with Lucrecia Martel

    Cinema isn’t there to say “this is wrong” or “this is right,” but to show how things have been constructed. To show that things are not natural, to show that they are made, defined, by human beings.

  • Interview with Gerald Kargl

    When the film premiered in 1983, people in Austria, at the very least, turned up their noses. That harmed me and made it more difficult for me to finance another film.

  • A Nuri Bilge Ceylan Exhibition in Amsterdam

    Eye Filmmuseum is presenting the first exhibition in the Netherlands dedicated to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s photographs and films, titled “Inner Landscapes”, from January 17 to May 11, 2025. On this occasion, we had the opportunity to interview Jaap Guldemond, the exhibition director and curator at Eye Filmmuseum.

• Events •

  • Diamonds of the Night Screening

    A struggle to preserve human dignity: a war masterpiece, Diamonds of the Night, presented by Othon a one-time screening at Kadıköy Cinema!

  • “Hiroshima Mon Amour” Screening

    An echo between the transience of love and the permanence of trauma: Hiroshima Mon Amour on the cinema, presented by Othon!

  • Henry Fonda For President Screening

    Henry Fonda For President Screening “You feel no sense of responsibility toward anyone or anything. And while this may be a tragedy for an individual, for a president it is a catastrophe.” Awakening from the American Dream, we set out on a journey into a mysterious nightmare: “Henry Fonda for President” meets audiences in…

  • “Z” Screening

    A film that radically unsettles the language of political cinema: Costa-Gavras’s masterpiece Z returns to the big screen, presented by Othon.

• Films•

  • Neşet Günal’s Earth Men

    The result of a long and meticulous effort. A different approach to the world of painting. A concrete example of achieving mastery on the edge of impossibilities. A striking document of the dominance of cinematic art over painting.

  • Jard-sur-Mer

    Samuel Starck Sjøen shows us a twilight that sets in along the French coast of Jard-sur-Mer, but a lighthouse penetrates the incoming darkness.

  • Bestowal

    The film depicts where life can begin and where it can lead for a filmmaker, and in the journey between existence and non-existence, it illustrates where the mind and heart can reach through the medium of cinema.

  • The Islands Above

    Combining memory, poetry, and the empty landscapes of the narrator’s homeland, The Islands Above is a tourist’s look at an isolated local.

Othon Cinema is a platform that strives to open the door to all kinds of cinematic productions. One of the main reasons behind this initiative is to reveal the achievements and productions of people who are on a personal journey through cinema.

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