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Unframe Festival 2025

A festival of socialist ideas and culture


28/10/2025

Unframe festival is a three day socialist-cultural festival in Berlin with various themes in English and German. We invite people to learn and exchange about political ideas. We offer a weekend full of lectures, panels, workshops, live music, film screenings, food, bazaar and more.

Unframe festival is more than just an event—it’s a vibrant cultural and political space, bringing together people eager to explore and engage with transformative ideas. Rooted in socialist thought, the festival is dedicated to discuss and “unframe” key topics concerning socialism, marxism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and the political developments shaping our world today.

Following the first Unframe festival in Oyoun, this year we will be in bUm, Paul-Lincke Ufer 21, from Friday, 31st October until Sunday, 2nd November.

Unframe is aimed at the following audience:

  • Politically engaged individuals who are interested in learning more about topics such as
    anti-racism, anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism etc.
  • People supportive of feminist, queer, trans and intersectional perspectives
  • Activists who would like to dive deeper into political theory in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice to create tangible change
  • People who would like to network with politically like-minded
  • People from the Berlin art and culture scene

You can find out more from the Unframe website.

Berlin Amnesty Group on Israel/Palestine

Fighting human rights abuses


22/10/2025

The Berlin Amnesty Group on Israel/Palestine is a volunteer initiative within Amnesty International. We raise awareness of the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory through various formats, such as film screenings, information booths, and signature campaigns.

In doing so, we refer, among other things, to the latest Amnesty investigations on apartheid and genocide, such as the 2022 report “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity” and the 2024 report “‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.”

We also support the Amnesty “Protect The Protest“ campaign and highlight restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly, particularly regarding the Palestine solidarity movement.

Through our individual case work and the collection of signatures, we also actively advocate for the release of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience—among them Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was arrested by the Israeli military in Gaza on December 27, 2024—as well as for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Curious to learn more? Visit our website or come to one of our next events!

Help Haneen Koraz Empower Voices Through Art

Fundraiser for @animator_haneen’s animation workshops for children and women in Gaza


15/10/2025

“The last scene stuck.” On the 7th of October, Saturday, we were all preparing to film the final scene of an animated film dealing with the issues of girls with hearing disabilities during the workshop. Meet Haneen Muhammad Koraz, Trainer and maker of stop motion cartoon films. She has worked in the field of visual arts since 2012 at the Theater Days Foundation. She participated in many local and international festivals and won many artistic awards for producing cartoon films with different topics. She won third place in the Partners Short Film Competition for producing a film for the Gaza Municipality and third place in the One Minute Film Competition with the Sawa Foundation. She participated in the International Animated Cinema Festival, In Kairouan – Tunisia. She recently received the Al-Taawoun Award for Excellence in the Cultural Sector 2022, “One Day We Will Be,” for producing “Studio Without Voices” for making cartoon films. In addition, she received grants for projects and initiatives from institutions inside and outside Palestine that support the idea of ​​making hand-made cartoon films.

From Haneen- I deeply believe that every person has the right to express himself freely, and that art, making and learning cartoon films is one of the means of free expression, audio-visually, for all segments of society. I tried to change the reality, even if just a little, for the children and women in the tents I have conducted workshops specifically for children. Children and women draw, color, discuss, play, learn using the photography program, photograph scenes, write stories that express their suffering and reality, draw cartoon characters, and record their voices on film. They have created many cartoon films. There is a film called “Queens” that talks about the suffering of children in the tent, how they live, and how they overcome the problems of water and fire, bringing firewood and bread, and not playing. The women made a film called “Red Autumn,” which talks about how the women left their homes, belongings, and rooms and migrated to other regions for fear of war, and how they lost their valuables and memories during the period of displacement.

I am Belal Koraz, the brother of Haneen. I currently live in Virginia, USA. I created this fundraiser as a way to try to get help to Haneen so she can continue her work that is so important at a time like this.

To ease the minds of any persons wanting to donate, once we receive the donations, I will wire transfer from my bank directly to my sister in Gaza. Thank you for your support at such a heartbreaking time.

You can donate to the fundraiser for Haneen here. There will be an exhibition including several of Haneen’s works in bUm on Tuesday, 21st October, 2025.

AL.Festival.2025

One week. One city. One radical gathering.


08/10/2025

AL.FESTIVAL.2025 is back this October for its 6th edition! Since 2019, AL.Berlin has built a platform for music, art, and critical exchange, amplifying the voices and cultures of South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and their diasporas. Over the years, AL.FESTIVAL has grown into Berlin’s leading festival for SWANA music, a place where community, resistance, and celebration come together.

Unapologetically loud and boldly present, AL.FESTIVAL is a space of resistance and joy in a time when our existence is too often treated as a threat. We come together to disrupt, to be heard, and to carry both the rage and calm woven into our sound.

We’re honored to present an artist lineup like no other, with powerful collaborations alongside some of your favorite Berlin-based SWANA collectives! Expect workshops, exhibitions, film screenings, talks, radio shows, and a food Bazaar offering a rich variety of flavors that taste like home

Rooted in SWANA and Global Majority voices, we move together in continued solidarity against the noise of rising far-right extremism, the weight of colonial legacies, and ongoing systems of oppression.

The festival ends on Friday, October 11th with a multi-stage playground of live music, DJs, queer karaoke, and open-air vibes in the Festsaal Kreuzberg. Doors open 4pm.

Help my mother to heal and my family to survive

Fundraiser by Saeed Amireh, activist from Ni’lin


30/09/2025

Dear friends, friends of Palestine and humanity,

My name is Saeed Amireh, 33 years old from the village of Ni’lin,Palestine.peace and human rights defender.

This year in May, we discovered that my mother suffers from a disease which is similar to uterine cancer. She was in urgent need of surgery and despite all the challenges and difficulties, we found a way to get her to the hospital in time and get the surgery done that ultimately saved her life, thanks to three amazing friends who helped paying the hospital bills, as well as medicine and food, so that my mother was able to heal.

In the following weeks, my mom’s health was improving. Yet, she was still very weak. Also, her condition needed further treatment. Due to economic difficulties – with the worsening of the blockade and new check points and daily harassment – it was getting more and more difficult to provide her with healthy food and the ongoing treatment she needs.

We’re struggling since the beginning of the ugly war, the harassment by the settlers as well as the Israeli military has made our survival very difficult. Therefore., we’re drowning in debts to the local shop keepers. Since the shop keepers need to provide for their families, too they no longer accept our promises to pay them back – there are simply too many families in very dire conditions, trying to survive without any means and thus amassing debts with the shop keepers. Therefore we’ve been told that we need to pay back our debts before we can get any food.

For the past 20 days every single day was an incredible struggle in order to feed the family, as we’ve been without any income or means, just full of debts.

As if this were not enough, every single day, I’m struggling with anxiety. The fear of loosing my mother, because I cannot provide her with the necessary treatment and food is suffocating me. We’re all praying that my mother’s health doesn’t deteriorate and that we all manage to stay safe and to survive this madness. But the war seems endless and we are very tired and don’t know how to survive anymore.

I’ve always been the one who has helped other people, spoke on their behalf and tried to restore their hope and find solutions for impossible problems when they were in need. Now, I’m desperate for the situation of my own family and I lack energy and ideas for a solution on how to survive.

As a last resort I’m turning to you, pleading with you to help me save my mother and to help my family to survive.

I’m setting up a fundraiser with the target of 7000,- Euro. 3000,- Euros will serve for the continuous treatment and the necessary medicine for my mother and 4000,- Euros will be used for food, as well as the most urgent needs for the next couple of months, until we hopefully find an alternative solution to our dire situation or see an end to this ugly war and get back on our feet again.

Any amount can make a big difference for us. God bless all of you and your beloved families and keep you all healthy, safe and protected

Thank you so much!

You can donate to Saeed’s fundraising campaign here.