is a good neighbour active in your local community? September 21–October 1, 2017

Istanbul Modern Cinema, presents a film program parallel to the 15^th Istanbul Biennial entitled “a good neighbour”. Based on the notion of neighbourhood, the program looks at our ways of sharing the same locality. Touching on subjects such as sharing the same neighbourhood, meeting in the square, walking in the same streets, being someone’s next-door neighbour, and standing in solidarity and resistance, the selection features films such as America Square (Plateia Amerikis, 2016) by Yannis Sakaridis, which tells about the immigrant crisis in Europe through a local square; Colossal Youth (Juventude Em Marcha, 2006), the latest film in the trilogy about Lisbon’s now demolished Fontainhas neighbourhood by Pedro Costa, one of the leading auteurs of contemporary European cinema; My Neighbour Totoro (Tonari no Totoro, 1988) by Hayao Miyazaki, which tells the fantastical neighbourhood story between the sisters Satsuki and Mei and the magical guardian of the forest; the first two episodes of the series Perihan Abla (1986), in which TRT (the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) brought to our television screens the sense of neighbourhood community which was on the verge of extinction even in 1986 when the series was shot; and the Argentinean film The Distinguished Citizen (El Ciudadano Ilustre, 2016) about a Nobel Prize-winning author who returns to his hometown for the first time in 40 years.
All screenings are free of charge.