AMAN AMAN Berlin

A three day festival of open air screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures and culinary interventions

AMAN AMAN!
A distant cry of unfulfilled longing, a call of insurmountable passion, a style of pre-nationalist musical syncretism blending Greek, Turkish, Kurdish, Jewish, Arabic and Armenian modes, rhythms, and languages.

From the haunting tunes of amanades and türküs to the solidarities forged between Greek and Turkish workers in Germany, from the post-Ottoman laments of the Café Amans in New York to contemporary voices from the Aegean coast and Anatolia, AMAN AMAN moves between past and present and traces connections across time and space. 

A transnational cultural project initiated by SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Goethe-Institut Athens & TAVROS, moving between Athens, Berlin, Izmir, Thessaloniki, Munich, and Istanbul to trace shared histories of migration, exile, labor, solidarity, and cultural production.

Through concerts, listening sessions, film screenings, talks, and culinary interventions, echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean will intertwine with multilayered histories of migration, exile, labor, solidarity, and friendship in present-day Berlin. 

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

Partners: Goethe-Institut Athen & SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA & TAVROS in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Izmir, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, Münchner Kammerspiele, İç İçe – Festival für neue anatolische Musik, der Kulturakademie Tarabya and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt.