• “The 400 Blows” Screening

    The beginning of the New Wave, a rare masterpiece of cinema… The silent scream of a child carrying the weight of growing pains on his shoulders: The 400 Blows on the big screen with an Othon presentation!

  • 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 •

  • “The 400 Blows” Screening

    The beginning of the New Wave, a rare masterpiece of cinema… The silent scream of a child carrying the weight of growing pains on his shoulders: The 400 Blows on the big screen with an Othon presentation!

  • “Wings of Desire” Screening

    We’re bringing you another cinematic masterpiece: Wings of Desire presented by Othon on Sunday, November 23rd at Kadıköy Cinema!

  • Mayak Screening

    On the edge of war, amid destruction, a woman tries to return to her home and her past: Mayak, in theaters with an Othon presentation.

  • A Pedro Costa Retrospective

    Hosted by Istanbul Modern and in collaboration with the Consulate of Portugal, all films by one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices, Pedro Costa, will be presented to audiences in Istanbul through a special retrospective.

• 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.

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