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The film series organized by the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 will continue in 2026: From January 28 to December 16, 2026, Cinema Surreal will show surrealist films about collecting, surrealist films from Paris, and masterpieces from the history of surrealist film every two weeks on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Admission is free, and registration is not required.
Wednesday 28. January 2026, 6 pm
Innocence of Memories – Orhan Pamuk’s Museum and Istanbul
by Grant Gee, Turkey 2015, 97 min, OmU
If surrealism did not exist, it would have to be invented for Orhan Pamuk. In the novels of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, dreams and reality merge, the reality of the readers and the dreams of the author. “I believe in the future dissolution of these seemingly contradictory states of dream and reality into a kind of absolute reality, if one can say so: surrealism,” writes André Breton in his Surrealist Manifesto. Rarely is this implemented as consistently as in Orhan Pamuk’s 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence. A young man, Kemal, loves a woman, Füsun, but …
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Image above: “The Fabulous World of Amélie,” by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France 2001, 122 min, DF. © Prokino
