this weekend
24 - 26 April 2026
FRIDAY, 24.04.
Doors: 17:00; Start: 19:00, Atemporal
Listening Session - ticket required
“Across six tracks, Revoada unfolds as both a record and a narrative — tracing Mauricio’s migration and travels through Brazil’s geographical contrasts, from rural landscapes to dense urban environments. The project draws from deep listening and cultural exploration: flea markets, old vinyl discoveries, and vintage artefacts collected during his time in Brazil, while also reflecting a new chapter shaped by his life in Berlin since 2022. Touching on elements of Turkish psychedelia, soul-jazz, and 1970s film soundtracks, the record creates an immersive and emotionally rich soundscape - playful yet deeply rooted in personal history.”
SUNDAY, 26.04.
BULLERENGUE’S VOICES OF RESISTANCE
15:00 - 19:00, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Music and Dance Workshop | Practice - free admission
“HKW welcomes the presence of renowned cantadora Darlina Sáenz. Through a workshop format (for which no prior experience is required), followed by a rueda, the circular open format in which Bullerengue unfolds, she shares her knowledge of this interconnected music, dance, and community-building practice. Widely recognized as one of the tradition’s key contemporary voices, Darlina Sáenz is a singer and cultural bearer of Bullerengue, actively involved in its preservation and transmission through community initiatives and cultural projects.”
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SUNDAY, 26.04.
17:00 - 22:30, Akademie der Künste / Hanseatenweg
Film Screenings | Lecture - free admission
“The four films in this programme deal with personal and political experiences: friendship and desire, grief and transformation, the body as a repository of history, and landscapes as projections of violence and hope. In very different cinematic forms – from documentary diaries to essayistic and poetic narratives to experimental visual works – they open up intimate approaches to existential questions of our present. What these works have in common is a persistent focus on fragility: on relationships under pressure, on the self undergoing change, on memories that refuse to rest. The films reject simple answers, instead relying on intimacy, time and trust in the power of the cinematic image.”
SATURDAY, 25.04.
PUMP, CREATE, ELEVATE: NEW WAY 101
15:00 - 19:00, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Workshop | Hang-Out Space - free admission
“This workshop by renowned practitioner Sattva Ninja explores the origins and core elements of New Way, one of Ballroom’s three performance styles, also known as voguing. In the early 1980s the category Old Way focused on symmetry, lines, and classic poses. A decade later, New Way emerged as dancers began pushing the physical and technical boundaries of the form. The style introduced greater flexibility, contortions, and acrobatic elements, often accompanied by faster House and Techno tracks. Influenced by the attitude of Haute Couture, New Way emphasizes precise angles and complex visual illusions created through body, arm, and hand poses.”
FRIDAY, 24.04.
17:00, Flutgraben eV - Am Flutgraben 3
Exhibition Opening part of Arab Film Festival - free admission
“Sudan Retold is part of a long-term artistic project that began a decade ago. It brings together artists, writers, curators, and cultural workers responding to a place shaped by many cultures, religions, languages, and histories yet which is often pushed into a single, linear narrative. What began as an effort to tell Sudanese (his)stories differently has become a way of holding on to memory and place when both are under threat. The exhibition and the book draw on personal archives, oral histories, forgotten objects, and speculative figures, not so as to reconstruct a singular past, but to open space for layered, plural understandings of Sudan.”
Berlin has a lot of joy in it (scroll down)
Every Wednesday evening, we put together a short list of events happening across Berlin --gatherings that align with the spirit of This Is Joy Bro.
That means: places to celebrate, spaces to sit with hard conversations, events that move you (literally or otherwise), and moments of culture, community, and aliveness.
SATURDAY, 25.04.
15:00 - 22:30, Akademie der Künste / Hanseatenweg
Concert | Reading | Performance | Exhibition - admission with exhibition ticket
“The performance programme ‘Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils’ takes place as part of the JUNGE AKADEMIE's exhibition “Vessel & Voyager” and transforms the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg into a breathing, singing, vibrating resonance vessel. In four chapters, spaces are created for encounters, lingering and exchange between performers, visitors, artists and their works. ‘Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils’ is carried by a chorus of protesting voices, the unfolding of soundscapes and songs, the pulsation of bodies and territories, and the articulation of intimate spheres through language.”
SATURDAY, 25.04.
11:00, Meeting point - Anita—Berber—Park
Bicycle Community Ride - free registration
“What if joy was the most radical thing you could practice? This Saturday is the third Joy Ride! A new monthly gathering where we move through Berlin together and make joy the point. For this ride, we'll meet at Anita—Berber—Park and make our way towards the Teltow Canal, where we’ll ride and loop around -- shooting for a distance of about 25 km. These are not about pace or about kit. Come as you are! Connect with others, connect with nature, find a moment to just slow down.”
SUNDAY, 26.04.
17:00 - 18:30, Spore Initiative
Panel Discussion - free admission
“In 1967, the Arab world experienced a profound political and psychological rupture following the Six-Day War. The defeat, known in Arabic as al-Naksa (the setback), deeply affected artists and intellectuals across the region. For Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, this historical moment became a turning point that reshaped both his cinema and his political consciousness.
Marking the centenary of Chahine’s birth, this panel reflects on the relationship between defeat and transformation in cinema, in artistic practice, and in personal memory. How does political defeat reshape creative voices? How do filmmakers process collective trauma through storytelling? And what can Chahine’s work teach us about confronting defeat today?”
SATURDAY, 25.04.
PRESENTS INTERWOVEN BY AUS ISODA
Doors: 17:00; Start: 18:00, Atemporal
Guided Listening - ticket required
“Interwoven is a latest collaboration album from the Japanese electronic producer aus and a renowned musician Ken Isoda, whose minimalist masterpiece Oscillation Circuit received worldwide acclaim over the years. Drawing on Isoda’s deep legacy (notably his legendary work on Oscilation Circuit – Série Réflexion 1 from mythical label Sound Process) and fused with aus’ spellbinding melodies, Interwoven is ethereal healing sound: lingering piano, soft cinematic synths, field recordings that feel like whispered memories, while flutes and saxophone pass by, bringing a subtle breath of wind and the warmth of human touch. This is music for those who cherish the delicate beauty of life — and for fans of Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada, Satsuki Shibano, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Takashi Kokubo, Brian Eno… lovers of nature, reflection, and daydreams.”
SUNDAY, 26.04.
18:30 - 20:30 (Saturday); 19:45 - 21:45 (Sunday)
Parlament der Bäume
Film Screenings - free admission
“The TreeFilmFestival is unique: the first festival dedicated entirely to trees. The venue is not a cinema, but the Parliament of Trees against War and Violence, created by art activist Ben Wagin. Directly on the former "death strip" near the Reichstag, history meets the present.
Documentary films and art projects about nature, habitats and change will be shown - projected onto the Berlin Wall in the open air. The festival was curated by filmmaker and cameraman Uwe Bohrer, who has been filming trees and environmental issues since the 1970s and has accompanied Ben Wagin for decades.”
FRIDAY, 24.04.
18:00 - 22:00, Refuge Worldwide
Live Performances | Sound Healing | Reflection - free RSVP
“On April 24th, ambient label Sources soft-launches at Refuge Worldwide's space with a special evening of performances from artists and friends.
Sources is a home for musicians who make us feel less anxious, more grounded and connected to the world around us, brought to you by the team behind Endel.
Come early, stay present and leave softer with a blend of live performances, sound healing and immersive visuals. Guests are invited for a night of celebration and reflection, with optional donation at the door for environmental charity Earthpercent.”
FRIDAY, 24.04.
20:00 - 22:00, Das Gift
Experimental storytelling | performance art - ticket required
“Funeral Sandwiches returns!!! Berlin's Favourite Variety Show* is back!
Each show brings a chaotic mix of writers, performers, poets, and musicians exploring the fine art of making a room full of people laugh at things they wish they didn't relate to.
*as determined by an internal, biased workforce 😃👍”
FRIDAY, 24.04.
23:15 - 00:05, Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin
Concert - ticket required
“For the 50th anniversary of the album release, the previous version of the planetarium show has been reworked as a visual re-interpretation. With state-of-the-art fulldome technology, surround sound and a dynamic laser show, an immersive experience is created that seems to transcend reality. Each song on the album has its own theme, with a futuristic look forwards or a look backwards to Pink Floyd's visual history. All convey a special experience of time and space, and use the latest technology that only a planetarium can offer.”
SATURDAY, 25.04.
WHY DO I SEE YOU IN EVERYTHING?
19:00, Sputnik
Film Screening part of Arab Film Festival - ticket required
Hybrid Documentary, director: Rand Abou Fakher, Belgium, 2026, 70 min, AR, with EN st.
“This highly lyrical film takes root in Syria and branches out to Berlin as it paints the relationship of two friends navigating memories, footage and current events from back home. The film stitches together a loose narrative as it examines political violence all while affirming love and care as acts of resistance. As such, it is equal parts a sweeping epic across geographies and an intimate lucid dream shared between two friends.
Why Do I See You In Everything? marks Rand Abou Fakher’s debut hybrid documentary. It premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this past January. (JH)”
FRIDAY, 24.04.
RENATE KLUBNACHT WITH CALABADDIES & OUCH
23:00 - 08:00, Renate
Club Night - ticket required
“More than just parties, CALABADDIES hosts fundraisers and community events to connect people while the world burns. While always keeping things cunty, cute, and political. After a year of bar gigs, club nights, radio shows, boat parties, and crafting community events, CALABADDIES will be celebrating its first birthday at Renate with music from some residents and special guest, Meg10.
Built as a collective project, Ouch is committed to creating safer, more welcoming spaces where people can move, meet, and express themselves without fear of judgment with a focus on nonbinary sounds and club music that stretches beyond the usual house and techno framework, Ouch look to bring a different groove to Berlin's nightlife landscape.”
SATURDAY, 25.04.
19:00, Spore Initiative
Film Screening part of Arab Film Festival - ticket required
Documentary, director: Abdulrahman Sabbah, Palestine/France/Qatar, 2025, 61 min, AR, with EN st.
“How does one maintain an uplifting practice in the midst of genocidal devastation? Director Abdulrahman Sabbah attempts to answer this question through the committed clownery of Uncle Alloush, a professional performer still working – despite gargantuan odds – to alleviate some of the pain and suffering of Gaza’s kids.
A filmmaking feat in and of itself, The Clown Of Gaza follows its titular character through his performances, as well as moments of forced displacement alongside his family and their attempts to return home. This touching film deals with resilience from a new perspective: a person with disability putting on a literal clown persona in the face of mass dispossession and settler colonial violence. (JH)”
SUNDAY, 26.04.
19:00, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
Film Screening part of Arab Film Festival - ticket required
Documentary, director: Viola Shafik, Egypt/Germany, 2025, 100 min, AR/DE, with EN st.
“An autobiographical documentary about family, love of cinema, and the perpetual condition of being in between: homes, languages, and places. Shafik explores her relationship with her son and his father, the renowned art director and production designer Onsi Abou Seif, centring their shared entanglement with Egyptian cinema, past and present: her groundbreaking scholarship, and his work designing the visual worlds of numerous masterpieces of Arab cinema, from the late 60s until today. The film unfolds into deeper reflections on migration, political oppression, and the erasure of places and identities. ALFILM presents the German premiere of Home Movie On Location. (IA)”
SUNDAY, 26.04.
20:00, CineStar Kino at the KulturBrauerei
Film Screening part of Arab Film Festival - ticket required
Documentary, Directors: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim 'Snoopy' Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox, Sudan/Qatar/UK/Germany, 2025, 80 min, AR, with EN st.
“Conceived as an intimate portrait of everyday life in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum becomes, in the wake of war, a film about survival, displacement, and the labor of remembering. Following five residents from different social milieus, the filmmakers move from street-level observation to inventive reconstruction, using testimony, performance, and stylized image-making to bridge the rupture between the city that was and the city that can no longer be filmed in the same way. What emerges is a polyphonic urban portrait that holds friendships, aspirations, work, humor, and grief held in tense proximity. Refusing reductive war optics, the film insists on Sudanese subjectivity and on cinema as a space where shattered time can be reordered into collective witness.”
