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Jazzfest Community Film Lab | Behind The Scenes I

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Jazzfest Community Film Lab
© Berliner Festspiele / Jazzfest Berlin, video: Mariana Hoyos, music: Oùat

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 4 November 2025

2 min

Word mark Jazzfest Berlin

Creative Team 

Film crew: Cal Ola, Andrés Hilarión, Andrés Aguiló, Chris Jonas, Frederik Britzlmair, Lina Ashour, Joel Grip, Nelly Thea Köster

Workshop leaders:
Joel Grip (Direction Moabit Imaginarium)
Nelly Köster (Direction Jazzfest ImproLabs for Kids)
Mohammad Mahdi Qurbani, Ahmed Shah (Theater X / 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

Nadin Deventer, Jana Klimmek