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Jazzfest Community Film Lab | Behind The Scenes I

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Jazzfest Community Film Lab
© Berliner Festspiele / Jazzfest Berlin

As part of this year’s Jazzfest Community Week, the Jazzfest Community Film Lab will unfold across the Gropius Bau and various locations in Moabit. Over several months, a multidisciplinary project will take shape through a collective process involving international filmmakers, musicians and the workshop leaders of the Jazzfest Community Week. Together, they will create a film that explores questions of belonging, dreams and trauma in a world undergoing rapid transformation. More than 60 participants – including artists, children and musicians – will take part in the filming during the festival week, contributing their voices to a vibrant and collaborative production. The film will premiere in Berlin in the course of next year.

Available from 22 October 2025

2 min

German

German and English

Word mark Jazzfest Berlin

Creative Team 

Cal Ola, Andrés Hilarión, Andrés Aguiló, Chris Jonas, Frederik Britzlmair, Lina Ashour, Joel Grip, Nelly Thea Köster, Nadin Deventer, Ahmed Shah

Workshop leaders:
Joel Grip (Direction Moabit Imaginarium)
Nelly Köster (Direction Jazzfest ImproLabs for Kids)
Mohammad Mahdi Qurbani (Platform Migration Matters)
Yvonne Leppin
Camilo Milton
Cenk Arpa

30 kids of participating schools:
Mullewapp e. V. & Miriam-Makeba-Grundschule, SOS-Kinderdorf Berlin: Hort an der Theodor-Heuss-Gemeinschaftsschule

Jana Klimmek, Anuschka Beese