• Au Hasard Balthazar Screening

    One of the most powerful and austere narratives in film history: “Au Hasard Balthazar” by Robert Bresson presented by Othon in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir!

  • 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 •

  • Au Hasard Balthazar Screening

    One of the most powerful and austere narratives in film history: “Au Hasard Balthazar” by Robert Bresson presented by Othon in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir!

  • India Song Screening

    A world where words fall silent and desire echoes. A hypnotic poem of desire and decay from Marguerite Duras: India Song, presented by Othon, in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir!

  • Marketa Lazarová Screening

    One of the “darkest” films in the history of cinema: “Marketa Lazarová” on the big screen with an Othon presentation!

  • At the First Breath of Wind Screening

    One of the purest examples of a singular cinematic approach that entrusts meaning not to words but to the senses: “In the First Breath of Wind” comes to Istanbul and Ankara with an Othon presentation.

• 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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