3x2: Gates of Freedom November 22–December 4, 2021

Istanbul Modern Cinema continues its trilogy series. Trilogies are series of three films often named by directors or film critics, and related to each other through a common character, theme or place, sometimes as parts of a bigger story or as independent stories that come together to serve as a whole.

This month’s trilogy duo focuses on individual and societal freedoms, and the struggles for such freedoms. The “Three War Films” trilogy, by one of the cornerstones of contemporary Polish cinema, Andrzej Wajda, looks at the social and psychological costs triggered by the Second World War, while Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise Trilogy” questions the cost of being humans in the modern world through the concepts of love, faith and hope.