AMAN AMAN Berlin

In the organizer's words:

12.-14.06.2026

AMAN AMAN Festival
Screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures and culinary interventions

AMAN AMAN: a cry of despair, agony, despond, or an expression of unfulfilled longing or insurmountable passion. A style of pre-nationalist musical syncretism that blends Greek, Turkish, Jewish, and Armenian modes, rhythms, and languages. In Berlin, AMAN AMAN comes to life as a three-day festival at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA where echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean intertwine with multilayered histories of migration, displacement, and exile. Through concerts, listening sessions, film screenings, talks, and culinary interventions, the intertwined echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean and the multilayered histories embedded within them become audible, visible, and experientially accessible.

The region's cultural heritage-shaped by migration, displacement, and exile-unfolds within Berlin's trans-cultural present. The festival seeks fluid narratives beyond chronological orderings and opens up new, polycentric perspectives from within the diaspora. These perspectives are re-situated through sound, language, and film-beyond fixed categories and singular attributions.

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

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AMAN AMAN will be celebrated in Berlin with a three-day festival at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA - with concerts, listening sessions, film screenings, lectures and culinary interventions, the interwoven echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean and the multi-layered stories inscribed in it will be made audible, visible and tangible.

The cultural heritage of the region, which has always been characterized by migration, expulsion and exile, unfolds in Berlin's transcultural contemporary space. The festival searches for fluid narratives beyond chronological orders and opens up polycentric perspectives from the diaspora, which reposition themselves in sound, language and film - beyond clear attributions.

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