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Pera Film’s new season program Where is the Playground? tackles the notion of education, systems of learning, teaching, and growing pains and is presented as part of Pera Museum's new exhibition School Square Galatasaray, an exhibition celebrating Galatasaray High School’s 150th anniversary and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts’ 4th Design Biennial A School of Schools. The selection highlights certain landmark fiction and documentaries from late 1960’s to recent times. James Clavell’s groundbreaking 60’s drama To Sir, with Love underlines a British inner city school’s social and racial issues; Frederick Wiseman in his 1969 documentary titled High School explores a school in America, Philadelphia, observing the daily activities of teachers and students. Richard Linklater’s 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of American seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen over the course of one day. Larry Clark’s fast-paced debut feature Kids (1995) explores the lives of a