"Cinema, I love you!" is scheduled to be held from Feb. 14 to March 8, and will screen a selection of intriguing documentaries and fiction productions on cinema and our love for cinema. As Dziga Vertov said in 1923, "We cannot make our eyes better than they have been made, but we can perfect the movie camera forever." After many years, the cinema industry continues to pursue perfection. Most of us are now addicted to the silver screen, as our eyes are fixed on the extraordinary talents of directors, actors and different forms of storytelling. This addiction reflects the intense love and labor that form the basis of cinema. Although Pera Film's upcoming program coincides with the Valentine's Day, instead of introducing romantic films, viewers will be taken on a journey between realistic and imaginary stories, all of which praise the art of filmmaking and share its enthusiasm. John Berger describes the cinematic experience with the following words that encapsulates why we love cinema: "What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie; it is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema, people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single life."Here are some examples from the screening program:InfernoIn the 1950s and '60s, Henri-Georges Clouzot was one of France's most acclaimed and successful filmmakers, a director who enjoyed massive international success with Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) and Les Diaboliques. His gift for generating tension and suspense onscreen earned him the nickname "The French Hitchcock." In 1963, Clouzot began work on a project called "L'Enfer" (The Inferno), a tale of jealousy that leads to madness, and the filmmaker was promised all the time and resources he needed for the picture. However, while the director was meticulously prepared when shooting began, after only three weeks, the production was halted and never resumed. Clouzot would complete only two more films before his death in 1977. Filmmakers Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea try to answer the question of what happened to a project so full of promise in "Inferno," a documentary that looks into the shadowy history of this lost film.The Pervert's Guide To Cinema"The Pervert's Guide To Cinema" takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic and acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect and unfailing sense of humor. The film cuts its cloth from the very world of the movies it discusses; by shooting at original locations and from replica sets, it creates the uncanny illusion that Zizek is speaking from within the films themselves. Together, the three parts construct a compelling dialectic of ideas. According to Zizek, "My big obsession is to make things clear. I can really explain a line of thought if I can somehow illustrate it in a scene from a film. 'The Pervert's Guide To Cinema' is really about what psychoanalysis can tell us about cinema."A Trip to the Moon"A Trip to the Moon" is the most famous of over 500 short films produced by cinema pioneer Georges Melies between 1896 and 1912, and its signature image of a bullet-shaped rocket lodging itself in the eye of a smirking moon is one of the most recognizable images in cinematic history. An accomplished magician, Melies moved from simple recordings of his stage shows to dazzling fantasy epics that were among the first narrative films ever made. These "trick films" combined fantastic yarns, intricate painted sets and elaborate costumes with such simple but effective special effects for the time, such as slow motion, dissolves and superimpositions.Room 237A subjective documentary exploring the numerous theories about the hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining" (1980). The film may be over 30 years old, but it continues to inspire debate, speculation and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice-overs, film clips, animations and dramatic reenactments. Together, they will draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.