Anorak, Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, Berlin (2026)

02/04/2026

Symposium: Culture Workers Organising Against the Authoritarian Turn 
April 11–12, 2026
Organised by Art Worker Solidarity
Hosted by anorak
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44
12099 Berlin

Participating groups:
Artists & Culture Workers London
Artists‘ Union England
Buradan Nereye? (Türkiye) .nereye
European Alternatives
Scottish Artists Union .scot
UKS (Young Artists‘ Society, Norway)
Arts & Culture Alliance Berlin
Radio Against Repression
Red KunstCol
Syndikat Kunst und Kultur
United Against Subcontracting
Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin
and many more...

April 11, 11:00-20:30
April 12, 12:00-18:30
Detailed schedule coming soon.

* Nearest S-/U-Bahn stop: Hermannstraße or Alt-Mariendorf
* Nearest bus stop: Saalburgstraße 277/N77
* anorak is wheelchair accessible. Only the elevator on the left hand side goes up to the 8th floor!

Background Image: Jacob Lawrence - Creative Therapy (1949)

22/01/2026

We’re expanding our studio programme and invite Berlin-based artists, curators, and researchers working primarily in time-based media, writing, translation, publishing, and culinary projects to submit collaborative proposals for a 3-month residency at the shared anorak studio in Berlin-Tempelhof from 1 July – 30 September 2026.

Up to three collaborative projects will be selected. Each comes with free use of the studio and a EUR 1000 artist fee.

Find the open call and submission form on our website (link in bio).

Looking forward to receiving many proposals!

13/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
anorak & Aktionshaus
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin

Thursday, 20 November, 7pm

Off the Record
Screening featuring work by
belit sağ, marlow magdalene, Jayce Salloum, Elisabeth Subrin, Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson, and Colectivo los Ingrávidos
Programmed by Re:assemblage Collective

Followed by a conversation
with Faraz Anoushahpour, Nour Ouayda, Mira Adoumier, Philip Rizk, Johanna Markert, and Kristofer Woods

The night ends with anora[k]araoke

Friday, 21 November

6.30pm
Solidarity Is a Verb
Screening & Conversation
Featuring work by Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas, and Yulia Appen
Programmed by WET & Freefilmers 

9pm
‘This One is Almost Free’
Screening featuring work by
Collectif Faire-Part, Rob Jacobs & Cem Weiss, Anne Reijniers & Paul Shemisi
Programmed by Collectif Faire-Part

Saturday, 22 November

6.30pm
Berlin: Normative and Counter Narratives
Screening followed by a conversation with Haytham el-Wardany and Jumana Manna
Programmed by Shapeshifting Collective

9pm
Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires Zine Launch with Screenings, Conversations, Readings and Songs with contributions by Angelika Nguyen, Fehras Publishing Practices with Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings and Fairuz, Gulzat Matisakova, Jyl Franzbecker, Krёlex zentre, Nhà Sàn Collective, Nino Bulling, Omar Gabriel Delnevo, Azza El-Hassan, Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali & Mustafa Abu Ali, Suza Husse, Ulrike Gerhardt, and Vũ T. Thu Hà
Programmed by D’EST

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12/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
‘This One is Almost Free’
Screening
Featuring work by Collectif Faire-Part, Rob Jacobs & Cem Weiss, Anne Reijniers & Paul Shemisi
Programmed by Collectif Faire-Part

Friday, 21 November 2025, 9pm
*Entry on donation basis*
Aktionshaus: Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin, 8th floor

Collectif Faire-Part is about to turn ten. Over the years, their practice has opened up from telling stories about the complex relations between Kinshasa and Brussels to addressing a broad range of questions on resistance and togetherness. Faire-Part’s films address struggles and imagine futures. Some confront the realities of visa discrimination, the afterlives of colonial monuments, and the dehumanising systems of air travel; others celebrate resilience and artistry, like the political poetry of street performers in Congo and Belgium, or the transcendent sound and q***r activism of composer Julius Eastman.

‘This One Is Almost Free’ is a film programme about striving for collective liberation, told through music, speech, and dance, bringing together earlier works and new works-in-progress by the collective and their friends.

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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

10/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
4 Films in Tribute to Julius Eastman
Screening
Featuring works in progress by Anne Reijniers & Paul Shemisi, Fallon Mayanja & Mawena Yehouessi, Victoire Karera, and Rob Jacobs & Cem Weiss
Programmed by Collectif Faire-Part

Friday, 21 November 2025, 9pm
*Entry on donation basis*
Aktionshaus: Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin, 8th floor

“4 Films in Tribute to Julius Eastman” pays cinematic tribute to the transcendent music, q***r activism, and vibrant spirituality of African American composer, performer, and activist Julius Eastman (1940–1990). Originally a classically-trained pianist, Eastman became a central figure in New York’s experimental music scene in the late 1970s. His music was known for its slow, cumulative structure, often bearing politically charged titles such as Evil N****, Gay Guerrilla, marking both a radical compositional stance and an uncompromising political gesture. As a Black q***r man navigating the structural erasures of both classical and avant-garde music, Eastman used sound to carve out a future where dignity meets resistance, leaving behind a powerful yet shadowed legacy.

The four shorts displayed here form the base for a collective film that is slowly taking shape.

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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

07/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires
Zine Launch with Screenings, Conversations, Readings and Songs
with contributions by Angelika Nguyen, Fehras Publishing Practices with Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings and Fairuz, Gulzat Matisakova, Jyl Franzbecker, Krёlex zentre, Nhà Sàn Collective, Nino Bulling, Omar Gabriel Delnevo, Azza El-Hassan, Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali & Mustafa Abu Ali, Suza Husse, Ulrike Gerhardt, and Vũ T. Thu Hà
Programmed by D’EST

Saturday, 22 November 2025, 9pm
*Entry on donation basis*
Aktionshaus: Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin, 8th floor

On the occasion of The Social Life of Film, D’EST launches a new series of zines accompanying the cycle Postsocialism as Method: Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires. The zine series is part of D’EST’s ongoing investigation into post-socialist, decolonial and q***r feminist perspectives in moving-image cultures.

The evening brings together three chapters of the cycle: Krёlex zentre’s reflections on translocal q***r imaginaries from Central Asia; Nhà Sàn Collective’s exploration of Vietnamese pop and underground music as archives of political desire and ecological utopia; and Fehras Publishing Practices’ Hader Halal [Present is Halal], a collective fabulation around the literary journal Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings (1968–1990s), with a focus on Palestine and connected spaces of resistance and liberation.

Through films, readings, and songs, the evening traces how artistic practices interconnect anti-colonial and anti-totalitarian socialist histories and life worlds from different and sometimes contradictory times and geographies.

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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

06/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
Berlin: Normative and Counter Narratives
Screening followed by a conversation with Haytham El Wardany and Jumana Manna
Programmed by Shapeshifting Collective

Saturday, 22 November 2025, 6.30 pm
*Entry on donation basis*
Aktionshaus: Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin, 8th floor
This event will look into the continuity and ruptures of violence in Europe, particularly in Berlin. We examine Europe’s internal shifts from liberal tolerance to liberal conquest, and how media and police partnerships are establishing extreme violence as a norm. By recalling and revisiting the colonial and imperial past, we can revalue, reconstruct, and deploy practices rooted in self-recognition, rather than seeking validation from the structures in power.
The event begins with a viewing of archival material that refers to liberation from Algeria to Palestine, from migrant to student movements, providing a counter-narrative to Eurocentric norms.
This programme was first shown during the Shapeshifting Film Festival and is now presented in a revised version with new guest speakers.
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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

Images: shapeshifting collective

04/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
Solidarity is a Verb
Screening and conversation
Featuring work by Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas, and Yulia Appen
Programmed by WET & Freefilmers

21 November 2025, 6.30pm
*Entry on donation basis*
Aktionshaus: Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin, 8th floor

“Solidarity is a Verb” is a screening and discussion programme providing insights into experiences of solidarity between WET and Freefilmers, and their wider networks. We will start by presenting Centre for Creativity (Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas of WET) and A Home for Rita [pre-premiere] (Yulia Appen of Freefilmers) to initiate a conversation about filmmaking as an expression of, and tool for, solidarity: an interconnected web of relationships and actions.

A Home for Rita (2025) intimately portrays a family of Roma IDPs (internally displaced people) in eastern Ukraine as they try to build a new life after their homes were lost to Russian occupation. The film was made over many months, through the sharing of life experiences and struggles, and reflects the friendship and relationships of mutual care between the director and her protagonists. Centre for Creativity (2024) depicts the Ukrainian ‘home front’ of the war against Russian aggression, specifically women who organise and resist the ongoing invasion. Notably, we hear the voice of Margarita Polovinko, an artist, volunteer, combat medic, and soldier, who was killed on the front line in April 2025. Margarita was also closely involved in ‘Medychka’, a fundraising campaign for first aid and medical equipment co-organised by WET and Freefilmers. Taking the two films as starting points, we will speak about WET and Freefilmers’ collaborations on film and volunteer projects, and the networks of solidarity that they have been weaving since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

03/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
Off the Record
Screening featuring work by belit sağ, marlow magdalene, Jayce Salloum, Elisabeth Subrin, Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson, and Colectivo los Ingrávidos
Programmed by Re:assemblage Collective
Followed by a conversation with Faraz Anoushahpour, Nour Ouayda, Mira Adoumier, Philip Rizk, Johanna Markert, and Kristofer Woods
The night ends with anora[k]araoke

20 November 2025, 7pm
*Entry on donation basis*
Aktionshaus: Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 12099 Berlin, 8th floor

“Thank you for your solidarity.” An Indonesian garment worker directly addresses the cinema audience, at once performing the homogenizing syntax of English while casting it into meaninglessness. This program presents a series of works that trouble the notion of bearing witness. Moving across forms of testimony—archival, performance, interview—the cinema is reconfigured here as a space for anger, protest, and close listening. As the agency of using one’s own words to address structures of power is repeatedly thrown into question, the program ends beyond language and voice – in an optical trance, with a single eye staring back at us. “Diffusion 1: Off the Record” was originally presented in Toronto on August 7 as part of Diffusion 2025.

Following the screening, a public conversation will bring together Faraz Anoushahpour (Re:assemblage collective), Mira Adoumir and Nour Ouayda (The Camelia Committee), Philip Rizk (On Strike), co-moderated by Johanna Markert (anorak / The Social Life of Film), and Kris Woods (Mis-Shapes / The Social Life of Film) to reflect on questions of address, spectatorship, and curatorial strategies that challenge dominant cinematic languages and structures.

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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image.

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03/11/2025

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM
ACCESSIBILITY
→ [email protected]

Venue Accessibility:
* The venues, anorak and Aktionhaus, are wheelchair accessible. There is an elevator that goes up to the 8th floor, where the congress and events take place. Only the elevator on the left hand side goes up to the 8th floor!
* Access to the main space of the congress will be clearly marked. Ramps have been created to ensure ease of access to the space.
* The accessible toilet is available on the 6th floor. You can ask for the key at the bar.
* A floorplan of the space and further information can be shared upon request.

How to get here:
* Nearest S-/U-Bahn stop: Hermannstraße or Alt-Mariendorf
* Nearest bus stop: Saalburgstraße 277/N77

Communication Channels:
* Access needs will be handled via email at [email protected]

Service Animals:
* Service dogs and pets are allowed during the events.

Neurodiversity access:
* We understand that occasional loud noises, bright lights, or larger crowds can be challenging. Please feel free to bring whatever you need to feel comfortable. You’re always welcome to step outside and return at any point. If you’d like more detailed information about the programme in advance, or have specific needs, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Getting In Touch:
* An awareness person will be on site for all events, recognisable by a glowing red bracelet. They are here to help. Please feel free to speak to them during the festival with any questions or concerns.
* Alternatively, you can send an email to [email protected]
* Email reports can be submitted anonymously by omitting your naming or contact information.

01/11/2025

D’EST is a nomadic platform and online archive for video art, experimental, and documentary film that maps artistic forms of historiography at the intersection of postsocialist, q***r-feminist, and decolonial narratives and imaginaries. It has been run by the art space and community center District*School Without Center in collaboration with international curators, artists, cultural workers, researchers, and activists since 2016. The D’EST cycle #2 “Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires” links anti-colonial and anti-totalitarian socialist histories and life worlds from different and sometimes contradictory times and geographies.

Since 2023, a constellation of curated video art chapters, a nomadic cinema format, and a zine publication channel has been created. Curated by Krёlex zentre, Nhà Sàn Collective, and Fehras Publishing Practices with Ulrike Gerhardt and Suza Husse, the D’EST chapters and zines “Postsocialist Time Slips,” “The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song,” and “Hader Halal” trace rarely told stories from Central Asia, Vietnam, the Eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa, and their creolizations in postsocialist and postmigrant Germany, Europe, and the US.

D’EST will present their work with invited collaborators on Saturday, 22 November at 9pm.

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FILM is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image. The third edition takes place from 20–23 November 2025 in Berlin.

Image: Video-Performance by Omar Delnevo with Palestinian film archives and texts from LOTUS Afro-Asian Writings collection of Fehras Publishing Practices, Producing D’EST Zines at POSTOST Zine Club, Vierte Welt, 2024. Photo: Suza Husse

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