Cinema - Beykoz Kundura

Kundura Sinema

Kundura Sinema offers an extraordinary viewing experience with the original industrial architecture of its building, converted from the boiler room of the Sümerbank Leather and Shoe Factory. Opened in 2018, Kundura Sinema is a unique alternative for the city’s film culture, with its program of films of high artistic and aesthetic value and a venue design that carries the textures of history.

Program

7–21 Haziran 2026

Archives, Testimonies and Vanishing Worlds

Cinema

Free

11 April 2026 Saturday, 17:00

Spanish Dancer & Silent Film with Live Music

Cinema

06 March 2026 Friday, 00:00

Invisible Labor, Visible Stories: Scottish Women Documentary Makers 1935 – Present

Cinema

Free

06 March 2026 Friday, 00:00

They Also Serve: Scottish Women Documentary Makers 1935 – Present

Cinema

Free

14 February 2026 Saturday, 17:00

Love Story

Cinema

24 Ocak – 21 Şubat 2026

Kundura Classics: Timeless Stories of Cinema

Cinema

27 December 2025 Saturday, 14:00

New Year’s Restored Classics: A Cinema Ritual That Deepens with Time

Cinema

29 November 2025 Saturday, 17:00

November Documentary Series

Cinema

Free

24 May 2025 Saturday, 15:00

Kundura Documentary Series

Cinema

Free

1–22 Şubat 2025

Kundura Classics: The Golden Age of Monsters

Cinema

Having earned a distinguished place on the city’s cultural map with its repertory cinema approach, Kundura Sinema also plays a pioneering role in the field with its restored classics and its silent film programs accompanied by live music.

Offering a dialogue-based approach with its audience regardless of genre or geography, Kundura Sinema’s programs are curated by Beykoz Kundura’s Artistic Director S. Buse Yıldırım with the support of program advisors.

Films shown as part of the Documentary Film Series, which invites viewers to reflect on how boundaries can shift when real-life stories are told through film, the open-air screenings held within A Summer Night Festival during the summer months, thematic selections and retrospective programs are complemented by talks, film analyses and workshops.

Taking its cue from Beykoz Kundura’s identity as an industrial heritage site and always mindful of cinema’s place in cultural heritage, Kundura Sinema brings together the venue’s industrial heritage atmosphere and the cinema experience in special screenings ranging from silent films to classics.

Given that Beykoz Kundura is one of Istanbul’s leading film studios, Kundura Sinema becomes a meeting place where films are not only produced but also meet their audiences and are talked about and discussed.

Inspired by the film screenings that were part of daily life during the era of the Sümerbank Leather and Shoe Factory and held with the participation of the people of Beykoz, Kundura Sinema opened on October 27, 2018, with celebrations of UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

Kundura Sinema took on its present form through the restoration of the historic oven known as the Russian Oven during the factory years, with its original structure preserved.

Today, the spot where the oven once stood serves as a foyer and food and drink area, while the space formerly used as a warehouse operates as the cinema hall.

Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including a Christie digital cinema projector, a Perlux® HiWhite cinema screen and a Luis Wassman sound system, the 140-seat hall offers audiences a hygienic and safe viewing environment with certified ventilation systems that run on 100% fresh air and have no mixing chamber.

Kundura Sinema

Kundura Sinema took on its present form through the restoration of the historic oven known as the Russian Oven during the factory years, with its original structure preserved.

Archive

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man Returns

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

The Shape of Water

Dracula

Dracula’s Daughter

The Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Some Like It Hot

Roman Holiday

The Naked City

An Affair to Remember

Gilda

Casablanca

The Abyss

The Black Dream

Some Like It Hot

The Film Primadonna&Selen Gülün Trio

The Decline & Selen Gülün Trio

The ABC of Love

Tantura

Beyond Utopia

Dancing in Jaffa

Something about Gerogia

Midnight Traveler

My Father the Spy

Birds of Exile - Domestic Goods Week

Three Friends - Domestic Goods Week

A World Not Ours

Golden Boy

Golden Boy in Beirut

LOVE, REBELLION, FREEDOM: Documentary Film Selection

Film About a Father Who

Behind the Flickering Light: The Archive

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Cinema Mon Amour

The Foundation Pit

Diamonds Are Forever

Discount Workers

Doctor Zhivago

Dr. No

The Film Primadonna & The Decline

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger

Hamlet

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Housemaids

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

The Man With The Golden Gun

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Party

The Spy Who Loved Me

Thunderball

The Abyss & The Black Dream

Waterproof

You Only Live Twice

Zapata’s Gang & The ABC of Love

How to Save a Dead Friend

Kotlovan/ The Foundation Pit

Nelly & Nadine

A Night Of Knowing Nothing

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 4: Film About a Father Who

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 4: The Silence of Banana Trees

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 18: Bentuguese

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 18: Vexations

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 18: Home Revised

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 18: A Night Of Knowing Nothing

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 11: Kotlovan

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 11: How To Save a Dead Friend

Love, Rebellion, Freedom: June 4: Nelly & Nadine

PINA BAUSCH: Nelken Line

For the Love of Dance: Pina Bausch: One Day Pina Asked

For the Love of Dance: Pina Bausch: Understanding and Explaining Pina

For the Love of Dance: Pina Bausch: Dancing Pina

The ABC of Love / Das Liebes ABC

Zapata’s Gang