20:00 BLOCK 01
BREAKING FREE: SONIC CHANGEMAKERS

screenings & live

Techno, Mama (LTU)
Isn’t It a Beautiful World (UK)
Kwetu Kwanza (UGA)

HHY & the Kampala Unit (live)

Turkana (DJ-Set)

in collaboration with bee-flat

– Turnhalle im PROGR

20:00 BLOCK 02
MUSICAL PIONEERS IN THE DIASPORA: SMASHING BOUNDARIES, STANDING UNITED

screenings

Love, Deutschmarks and Death (DEU)
Q&A with Cem Kaya (online)

Leave the Door Open (TUR/USA)

– Kino REX

20:00 BLOCK 03
ON THE FAST TRACK: FROM AFRICAN TURBO BEATS TO HEADBANGING HEROINES

screenings

Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed (POL/TZA) [Premiere]
Q&A with Jan Moszumański

Sirens (USA/LBN)

– Kino in der Reitschule

AB/FROM 23:00
NORIENT X RADIO BOLLWERK CLUBNIGHT

Mika Oki & Radio Bollwerk

freier Eintritt bei gekauftem Festivalticket/Festivalpass
free entry with a festival ticket/pass

– soso space

14:00–20:00  FESTIVALZENTRUM

in collaboration with Radio Bollwerk
freier Eintritt/free entry
– Stube im PROGR

15:30 BUBBLE 01
SONIC SENTIENCE: CAN YOU HEAR THE OCEAN’S VOICE?

lecture / screening / discussion

lecture by Zeynep Bulut
Atlantic Ragagar (CHE/MOR)
panel discussion with Gilles Aubry
moderated by Carla J Maier

freier Eintritt/free entry

– PROGR, kleine Bühne

19:30 BLOCK 04
SHAPESHIFTERS: UNLEASH THE BEASTS OF IMAGINATION

screenings

Meet Doug (FRA)

Me & The Beasts (VEN)
Q&A with Nico Manzano (online)

Neptune Frost (RWA/USA)

– Kino in der Reitschule

22:00 BLOCK 05
TECHNIQUES OF CARE

a/v performances

Rebecca Salvadori:
On Friendship and the City

André Vida & Lucia Margarita Bauer: ICS 39.040.99b [Premiere]

Olivia Salvadori & Francesco Fabris: An Invisible Ode

Sandro Mussida & David Alexander Currie: Albe [Premiere]

in collaboration with
Kunsthalle Bern, 7 Winds

freier Eintritt / free entry

– Kunsthalle

AB/FROM 23:00
LOUNGE

Radio Bollwerk Residents on Air

freier Eintritt/free entry

– Stube im PROGR

11:00 BLOCK 06
SONIC SENTIENCE: RAISING AWARENESS FOR A DYING PLANET

screenings

Atlantic Ragagar (CHE/MOR)
Q&A with Gilles Aubry
The Grief Interval (UK)
Kwetu Kwanza (UGA)

– Kellerkino

12:00–20:00  FESTIVALZENTRUM

in collaboration with Radio Bollwerk
freier Eintritt/free entry
– Stube im PROGR

14:00 BUBBLE 02
NORIENTAL WORLDING: THINKING WITH ALL SENSES

short screenings, readings, listening sessions, and conversations

with Rayya Badran (Beirut)
moderated by Philipp Rhensius

– PROGR, kleine Bühne

16:30 BUBBLE 03
NORIENT X NYEGE NYEGE: AT THE HEARTBEAT OF AFRICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC

talk and screenings

with Pauline Bédarida aka PÖ, Jan Moszumański & Turkana
moderated by Claudia Popovici & Lea Heimann

– PROGR, kleine Bühne

20:30 BLOCK 07
BROAD(ER)CASTING: ALIGNING WAVELENGTHS IN WARTIMES?

screenings

The Sound of Friendship, Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War (DEU/IND)
Q&A with Anandita Bajpai

Oh, It Hertz! (NOR)

– Kino REX

20:00 BLOCK 08
RAP IDENTITIES: ECHOES OF MASCULINITY

screenings

Meet Doug (FRA)

Libende Boyz (COD/BEL) Q&A with Wendy Bashi (online)

Mutant (ZAF)
Q&A with Baze

– Kino in der Reitschule

AB/FROM 23:00 
NORIENT CLUBNIGHT

DJ Sets

ASHA (Bern)
Coco Em (Nairobi)
PÖ (Nyege Nyege)
Turkana (Kampala, Nyege Nyege)

– ISC Club

11:00 BLOCK 09
EMPOWERING MUSICAL JOURNEYS: EGO DEATH AND THE REBIRTH OF THE SELF

screenings

Overheim (DEU)
A Sound of My Own (DEU)
Sometimes It Was Beautiful (SWE/COD)

– Kellerkino

12:00–20:00  FESTIVALZENTRUM

in collaboration with Radio Bollwerk
freier Eintritt/free entry
– Stube im PROGR

ab/From 14:30
BUBBLE 04
MUSICAL CAPITALISM: IS SURVIVAL POSSIBLE?

video installation, Q&A, panel discussion

Janice Iche: A Question of Time, Resilience, Beauty & Love

– PROGR, Kulturpunkt

20:30 BLOCK 10
CLOSING NIGHT: AVANT ELECTRO FOLK CONNECTIONS

live

Maarja Nuut & Nicolas Stocker

in collaboration with bee-flat

– Turnhalle im PROGR