İÇ İÇE – Festival for New Anatolian Music — Edition 2025

The 2025 edition confirmed the evolved program concept: live concerts, DJ nights, and a political-cultural daytime program of workshops, readings, and talks. The Festsaal Kreuzberg setting once again shaped the festival atmosphere – a venue that has brought together subcultural and politically aware Berlin scenes for decades. In 2025, the migrant and queer festival collective again organized the program with an awareness team and a safer space concept.

Thus, İÇ İÇE has established itself as a fixture in Berlin's festival landscape. It fills a niche that no other German festival occupies: the contemporary Anatolian hybrid scene as a curated musical and political platform. The growing resonance – through funding programs, press, and audience – shows that the need for such spaces is significant in Berlin and beyond.