Slovenia, Croatia, Germany / 2016 88’ /  Colour and B&W
Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, English with English and Turkish sub.

Director | Žiga Virc
Screenplay | Bostjan Virc, Ziga Virc
Cast | Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy

Receiving numerous positive and negative criticisms after its premier in 2016 at Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary Houston, We Have A Problem! By Slovenian director Ziga Virc is about an event hovering between reality and urban myth during the Cold War with an intense space race, namely “the space program exchange” that allegedly took place between the US and Yugoslavia.

USA / 1995 140’ / Colour
English with Turkish sub.

Director      | Ron Howard
Screenplay | Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert
Cast            | Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise

Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and The US has already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this "routine" flight.. until that is, things go very wrong, and prospects of a safe return fade.

USA, UK / 1968 419’ / Colour
English and Russian with Turkish sub.

Director | Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Cast | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission.With assistance from special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Provocatively billed as "the ultimate trip," 2001 quickly caught on with a counterculture youth audience open to a contemplative (i.e. chemically enhanced) viewing experience of a film suggesting that the way to enlightenment was to free one's mind of the U.S. military-industrial-technological complex.

Czech Republic / 1963 88’ / B&W
Czech with Turkish sub.

Director      | Jindrich Polák
Screenplay | Pavel Jurácek, Jindrich Polák
Cast            | Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická

It is the second half of the 22nd century and a spaceship called Ikarie XB 1 is on its way to Alfa Centauri to search for extraterrestrial forms of life. Its crew, made up primarily of scientists from various fields, being far from our solar system, is exposed to unknown and unimaginable dangers. At the same time, the film also deals with a number of their everyday worries as well as their delights. The stylistically refined fictional world of a distant future is brought to life through Kališ´s black and white shots in a wide screen format and Liška´s innovative electronic music, as well as the iconic set pieces and costumes. In addition, the matter-of-fact performance style employed by the best Czech actors from the time add a natural feel while also providing additional psychological layer to it. The script writers drew some of their inspiration from a novel by Stanisław Lem called The Magellanic Cloud. It is also worth mentioning that they resisted the politicization that sci-fi films of that time were frequently subjected to which often made them fairly superficial. Instead of pitting two rival systems against one another, thus creating an obvious East versus West dichotomy, they portray the hope for a better, morally more advanced humankind in place of the “riff raff” of the 20th century, who did not leave anything but disasters in their wake.

Germany, Czech Republic / 2019 68’ /  Colour
English, German and Czech with English and Turkish sub.

Director | Veronika Janatková

It is the Cold War Period, political and economic tensions permeated daily life and you come across with a window of hope that would take you away from all those unfavorable conditions. And this window takes you to the moon too! When Pan Am Airways started to create a waiting list for the first commercial flights to the moon, it did not know that 100,000 people would die for being in the list. For her documentary Ticket to the Moon, director Veronika Janatkova came together with some of those 100,000 space enthusiasts constituting the Pam Am’s First Moon Flights Club and made a documentary that narrates their story full of hope with a humorous style.

USA, UK / 1968 419’ / Colour
English and Russian with Turkish sub.

Director | Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Cast | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission.With assistance from special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Provocatively billed as "the ultimate trip," 2001 quickly caught on with a counterculture youth audience open to a contemplative (i.e. chemically enhanced) viewing experience of a film suggesting that the way to enlightenment was to free one's mind of the U.S. military-industrial-technological complex.

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Discover Young Talents by Open Screening at Kundura Cinema!

In the first year of its inauguration, Kundura Cinema which has opened its doors in an amazing atmosphere of the old shoe factory Beykoz Kundura, presents a fictional, documentary and animation short productions of young directors on the screen.

You have been invited to watch the series of these short films on the 15th of December at 4 pm.

You can register to this event by filling out the form HERE.

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As the world celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, it is important to remember the context within which the space flight occurred and what was at stake at the time. We present three films that toe the line between fact and fiction: using historical figures and/or contexts as the basis for absurdist twists and turns. They may not present the whole truth, but they all reveal something of what lies latent in our collective consciousness.

*Free event, registration is needed. Before coming to see the film you choose, please fill the form.

FIRMAMENTUM CONTINUITAS
Germany, Russia / 2016 11’ / Colour
Russian with English and Turkish sub.
Director | Esteban Rivera 
Firmamentum Continuitas is a fictional film about Gennady Baranov, an ex cosmonaut that used to have undercover interviews with the pope Paul VI.

GENGHIS KHAN CONQUERS THE MOON
USA / 2015 15’ / Colour
English with Turkish sub.
Director | Kerry Yang
In Genghis Khan's last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon. Just as the Mediaeval anti-hero thinks he's made his greatest conquest, he finds himself on a spiritual quest, realizing the absurd clash between one man's need and the silence of the Universe.

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
France/ 2002 50’ / Colour
English with Turkish sub.
Director | William Karel
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

Slovenia, Croatia, Germany / 2016 88’ /  Colour and B&W
Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, English with English and Turkish sub.

Director | Žiga Virc
Screenplay | Bostjan Virc, Ziga Virc
Cast | Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy

Receiving numerous positive and negative criticisms after its premier in 2016 at Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary Houston, We Have A Problem! By Slovenian director Ziga Virc is about an event hovering between reality and urban myth during the Cold War with an intense space race, namely “the space program exchange” that allegedly took place between the US and Yugoslavia.

Czech Republic / 1963 88’ / B&W
Czech with Turkish sub.

Director      | Jindrich Polák
Screenplay | Pavel Jurácek, Jindrich Polák
Cast            | Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická

It is the second half of the 22nd century and a spaceship called Ikarie XB 1 is on its way to Alfa Centauri to search for extraterrestrial forms of life. Its crew, made up primarily of scientists from various fields, being far from our solar system, is exposed to unknown and unimaginable dangers. At the same time, the film also deals with a number of their everyday worries as well as their delights. The stylistically refined fictional world of a distant future is brought to life through Kališ´s black and white shots in a wide screen format and Liška´s innovative electronic music, as well as the iconic set pieces and costumes. In addition, the matter-of-fact performance style employed by the best Czech actors from the time add a natural feel while also providing additional psychological layer to it. The script writers drew some of their inspiration from a novel by Stanisław Lem called The Magellanic Cloud. It is also worth mentioning that they resisted the politicization that sci-fi films of that time were frequently subjected to which often made them fairly superficial. Instead of pitting two rival systems against one another, thus creating an obvious East versus West dichotomy, they portray the hope for a better, morally more advanced humankind in place of the “riff raff” of the 20th century, who did not leave anything but disasters in their wake.

Special curation free of charge
REGISTRATION FORM

As the world celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, it is important to remember the context within which the space flight occurred and what was at stake at the time. We present three films that toe the line between fact and fiction: using historical figures and/or contexts as the basis for absurdist twists and turns. They may not present the whole truth, but they all reveal something of what lies latent in our collective consciousness.

*Free event, registration is needed. Before coming to see the film you choose, please fill the form.

FIRMAMENTUM CONTINUITAS
Germany, Russia / 2016 11’ / Colour
Russian with English and Turkish sub.
Director | Esteban Rivera 
Firmamentum Continuitas is a fictional film about Gennady Baranov, an ex cosmonaut that used to have undercover interviews with the pope Paul VI.

GENGHIS KHAN CONQUERS THE MOON
USA / 2015 15’ / Colour
English with Turkish sub.
Director | Kerry Yang
In Genghis Khan's last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon. Just as the Mediaeval anti-hero thinks he's made his greatest conquest, he finds himself on a spiritual quest, realizing the absurd clash between one man's need and the silence of the Universe.

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
France/ 2002 50’ / Colour
English with Turkish sub.
Director | William Karel
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

USA/ 1958 108’ / Colour
English with Turkish sub.

Director      | Richard Brooks
Screenplay | Richard Brooks, James Poe
Cast            | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

This 1958 film is based on legendary Tennessee Williams’ just-as-legendary play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with a Pulitzer Prize. Starred by Elizabeth Taylor who is etched in our memories with her unique beauty and striking performance and directed by Richard Brooks, the film is about alcoholic ex-football player Brick’s separation from his wife and meeting with his father who is dying from cancer.

Czech Republic / 1963 88’ / B&W
Czech with Turkish sub.

Director      | Jindrich Polák
Screenplay | Pavel Jurácek, Jindrich Polák
Cast            | Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická

It is the second half of the 22nd century and a spaceship called Ikarie XB 1 is on its way to Alfa Centauri to search for extraterrestrial forms of life. Its crew, made up primarily of scientists from various fields, being far from our solar system, is exposed to unknown and unimaginable dangers. At the same time, the film also deals with a number of their everyday worries as well as their delights. The stylistically refined fictional world of a distant future is brought to life through Kališ´s black and white shots in a wide screen format and Liška´s innovative electronic music, as well as the iconic set pieces and costumes. In addition, the matter-of-fact performance style employed by the best Czech actors from the time add a natural feel while also providing additional psychological layer to it. The script writers drew some of their inspiration from a novel by Stanisław Lem called The Magellanic Cloud. It is also worth mentioning that they resisted the politicization that sci-fi films of that time were frequently subjected to which often made them fairly superficial. Instead of pitting two rival systems against one another, thus creating an obvious East versus West dichotomy, they portray the hope for a better, morally more advanced humankind in place of the “riff raff” of the 20th century, who did not leave anything but disasters in their wake.

USA, UK / 1968 419’ / Colour
English and Russian with Turkish sub.

Director | Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay | Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Cast | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission.With assistance from special-effects expert Douglas Trumbull, Kubrick spent over two years meticulously creating the most "realistic" depictions of outer space ever seen, greatly advancing cinematic technology for a story expressing grave doubts about technology itself. Despite some initial critical reservations that it was too long and too dull, 2001 became one of the most popular films of 1968, underlining the generation gap between young moviegoers who wanted to see something new and challenging and oldsters who "didn't get it." Provocatively billed as "the ultimate trip," 2001 quickly caught on with a counterculture youth audience open to a contemplative (i.e. chemically enhanced) viewing experience of a film suggesting that the way to enlightenment was to free one's mind of the U.S. military-industrial-technological complex.

Germany / 1929 169’ /  B&W
Silent*

*Live musical accompaniment by sa.ne.na & Fulya Uçanok

Director      | Fritz Lang
Screenplay | Thea von Harbou
Cast            | Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl

One of the boldest figures in cinema history, Austrian director Fritz Lang 1929 silent film Woman in the Moon is considered one of the first examples of sci-fi genre. Based on the director’s wife Thea von Harbou’s book The Rocket to the Moon, the film follows a group people searching gold in space.

Woman in the Moon will be screened as a part of “Live Music to Silent Film” events of Kundura Cinema.