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SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA by bi'bak explores cinema as a space of social discourse, exchange and solidarity.
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An seinem neuen Standort in Berlin-Wedding wird SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA als transnationaler Raum für Filmkultur, Kunst, Wissen und Nachbarschaft verstetigt und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Stadtraum und Film als kultureller Praxis.

11/06/2026

Ellbogen (Elbow) in the OPEN AIR!

The AMAN AMAN festival weekend comes to a close with an OPEN AIR screening of Aslı Özarslan’s adaptation of Fatma Aydemir’s bestselling novel on Sunday, 15.06., at 21:30.

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin-Wedding. Despite countless applications, she can’t find an apprenticeship and isn’t even invited to an interview. On her 18th birthday, she flees alone to the megacity of Istanbul.
Too strong, too angry, and too uncompromising to accept the role of victim, Ellbogen (Elbow) is a portrait of one young woman’s search for her place in the world.

🔗 Tickets via sinematranstopia.de
📍 | Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347 Berlin

Weekend / Sunday pass holders for AMAN AMAN Berlin festival automatically get a seat!
Tickets can also be bought separately on the SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA website.

Ellbogen (Elbow)
Aslı Özarslan, Germany, Turkey 2024, 86 min. German and Turkish with English subtitles

10/06/2026

Announcing the full lineup for the AMAN AMAN Drag Cabaret feat. Adir Jan, Prince Emrah & QueerBerg Collective!

On Saturday evening starting at 20:30, we welcome you to a unique live event commissioned for the AMAN AMAN Berlin festival.

Conceived as an outdoor cabaret, the cosmopolitan Kurdesque sound pioneered by musician Adir Jan will intersect with performances by QueerBerg Collective members Prince Emrah, Beyefendi, Hadija Yusufi, and Agnes!
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Tickets available via Rausgegangen:
Single day pass 10€ (Fri / Sat / Sun)
Festival pass 20€ (Fri-Sun)

Want to give it a go yourself?! Earlier on the same day at 14:30, Prince Emrah will be hosting a Bellydance workshop. Day and festival passes guarantee entry to all events.

Photo credits:
Adir Jan by Kostas Stamoulis
Prince Emrah by Thao-My Nguyen (.photos)

08/06/2026

AMAN AMAN Berlin is almost upon us!

Here is your handy guide to all the different concerts, screenings, talks and interventions happening over the weekend.

Spaces are filling up fast but we still have some day passes and weekend passes available:

Single day Pass 10€ (Fri / Sat / Sun)
Festival Pass 20€ (Fri-Sun)

Buy your ticket now via Rausgegangen!

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AMAN AMAN is a project by , , and .space in cooperation with , , , , and .film

07/06/2026

A SİNELECTION PREMIERE in collaboration with the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin : Alexandra Gulea’s Maia – Portret cu mâini (Maia – Portrait with Hands)

On Thursday 11. June, we are delighted to present a premiere screening of Maia – Portret cu mâini, a personal and visually rich journey through the 20th century.

Followed by a talk with the filmmaker, Alexandra Gulea! .gulea

🔗 Tickets via sinematranstopia.de
📍 | Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347 Berlin

Filmmaker Alexandra Gulea retraces the life of her grandmother Maia, an Aromanian woman born into a semi-nomadic community shaped by displacement, persecution, and political upheaval.

Blending archival footage, performance, ethnographic materials, animation, and imagination, the film weaves together family memory and collective history into a haunting portrait of survival and belonging.

Maia – Portret cu mâini (Maia – Portrait with Hands)
Alexandra Gulea, Romania, Germany, France, 2024, 90 min. Aromanian, Romanian, with English subtitles

04/06/2026

Low-fi high-energy sci-fi worlds: The Critics present Crocodile!

In Kaduna, Nigeria, a city whose namesake crocodiles have nearly vanished, a group of young filmmakers and brothers called The Critics build handmade sci-fi worlds with sewn-together green screens and neighborhood casts. Shot across 13 years, Crocodile follows the brothers as they transform isolation into imagination. Co-directed with award-winning filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly, the film captures their raw, restless energy: political debates, moments of doubt, and the joyful determination to create the future they want to see, one homemade spectacle at a time.

🔗 Tickets via sinematranstopia.de

premiered Berlinale Film Festival February 2026

Crocodile
The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly, New Zealand, Nigeria, 2026, 100 min. English, Hausa, Yoruba with English subtitles

Screening as part of SİNELECTION on:
Sat 06.06. 19:00
Sun 21.06. 21:30 - OPEN AIR!
Sat 27.06. 19:00

03/06/2026

Rebetiko gems, inspirational women past and present, Seyyare Anatolian Women’s Choir: it’s AMAN AMAN BERLIN DAY 3!

Sunday 14. June from 14:30 onwards.

The final day of the AMAN AMAN Berlin festival opens with a food offering by Kübra Sarı before Marika’s Dream perform rebetiko gems by Marika Ninou – born on a ship during her Armenian family’s exile, she became a celebrated star of rebetiko while hiding her heritage to survive.

Ian Nagoski leads a listening session on “Ottoman-American” women recorded on 78rpm discs between 1917 and 1947.

Elona Beqiraj presents Brennende Fingerspitzen, a lecture performance commissioned for AMAN AMAN, interweaving her own texts with music and audiovisual elements.

AMAN AMAN Shorts 2 traces Turkish and Greek migrant life in West Germany through four rarely shown films from the 1970s and 1980s.

The festival closes with a concert by Seyyare – Anatolian Women’s Choir, singing centuries-old folk songs from Anatolia, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East in over ten languages.

Following the festival, at 21:30, join us for an OPEN AIR screening of Ellbogen (Elbow) by Aslı Özarslan, the film adaptation of Fatma Aydemir’s bestselling novel. asliozarslan_

Drinks, snacks, and meze plates available from all day.

Single day Pass 10€ (Fri / Sat / Sun)
Festival Pass 20€ (Fri-Sun)

Tickets are online via sinematranstopia.de &

See you at the table (and under it!)

Partners: , , and .space
In cooperation with , , , , , and .film

02/06/2026

Bellydance, Migrant Cuisine, Diaspora Sounds & a Drag Cabaret: Coming up on AMAN AMAN BERLIN DAY 2!

Saturday 13. June from 14:00 onwards.

Day two opens with a joyful bellydance workshop led by non-binary, q***r performer Prince Emrah – all bodies, genders, and backgrounds welcome.

A panel discussion curated by AKEBİ, The Memory of Taste, examines food as an archive of displacement, adaptation, and resistance.

A listening session and conversation explores the hybrid 8th Avenue musical scene of the Ottoman diaspora in New York, where Greeks, Armenians, Sephardic Jews, and Arabs converged.
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UNDER THE TABLE by Viron Erol Vert and students from the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee (KHB) - MA Spatial Strategies will come to life with another activation.

The AMAN AMAN Drag Cabaret takes the stage with Adir Jan, Prince Emrah & the QueerBerg Collective. ***rberg_collective

Two DJs close the night: Led by Xristina Fotiou, Mastika Sounds bridging the Balkans to the Levante, followed by Alias Shay weaving Raï, Tunisian Mezwed, and Arabic pop.
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As ever, drinks, snacks, and meze plates available from all day.

Single day Pass 10€ (Fri / Sat / Sun)
Festival Pass 20€ (Fri-Sun)

Tickets are online via sinematranstopia.de &

See you at the table (and under it!)

Partners: , , and .space
In cooperation with , , , , , and .film

01/06/2026

Announcing the line-up for AMAN AMAN BERLIN DAY 1!

Fri 12. June from 18:00 onwards.

AMAN AMAN Berlin opens with a performance by Perperúna Ensemble, a Berlin-based choir reinterpreting Balkan polyphonic singing traditions.ensemble

Viron Erol Vert and students from the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee (KHB) - MA Spatial Strategies, Beo Da Silva, Dré Philippens, Léna Serdijebi, Zéna Chite present UNDER THE TABLE, a multidimensional installation that reimagines Eastern Mediterranean table cultures beneath a monumental 10-meter-long table. zena_ch_

PAYE joins Korhan Erel and Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu for a concert weaving traditional Anatolian sounds with electronic, jazz, and folk influences.music .cemdinler

AMAN AMAN Shorts I brings together five films that circle absence, fracture, and inheritance across the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond.buyuktasciyan_studio .fatoum

The night closes with a DJ set by Greek curator and radio host Dimitra Zina, taking us on a soulful trip through jazz, funk, and disco with references to both sides of the Aegean.

Drinks, snacks, and meze plates available from all day!

Single day Pass 10€ (Fri / Sat / Sun)
Festival Pass 20€ (Fri-Sun)

Tickets are online via sinematranstopia.de &

See you at the table (and under it!)

Partners: , , and .space
In cooperation with , , , , , and .film

31/05/2026

Nora Bess presents Hale County this Morning, This Evening for team series -TOPIAS!

On Sunday 7. June, .of.commoning project manager Nora Bess will host a one-off screening of RaMell Ross’ Oscar nominated depiction of the American South rarely seen in mainstream media.

An intimate portrait of a Black community in Hale County, Alabama, Ross employs nonfiction filmmaking as a tool to rupture racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film.

Preceded by an introduction by Nora and audio producer Sydney Harper!

🔗 Tickets via sinematranstopia.de
📍 | Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347 Berlin

“Film is one of the most powerful tools we have to affect the way we see others and see ourselves and Ross uses this tool deftly. The American South is so often seen from the outside as a monolith of specific ideals and views and this film helps show the complexity, contradictions, and beauty of life that exists within communities there with a loving and caring eye.” - Nora Bess

Hale County this Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross, USA, 2018, 76 min. English with English subtitles

📸 Nora Bess by

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