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A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival, a platform for independent and arthouse games and explores the world and culture of playful media.


A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2025 for the 14th time, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. From May 14-17th 2025 the international Games and Playful Media Festival will take place in Silent Green and Panke Club (Berlin Wedding), and includes hybride components that connects the physical festival programme with the virtual world.

It is curated by A MAZE. .

A MAZE. invites artists and creatives from diverse fields to share their vision and projects, exchange knowledge, play, connect, and collaborate.
A MAZE. represents and celebrates the new art movement, made up of arthouse games, artistic virtual reality, and a playful media culture beyond the mainstream.

Credits

PROGRAM CURATOR: Zuraida Buter
AWARDS & JURY MANAGER: Matthias Löwenotter
WORKSHOP COORDINATOR: Sebastiaan Hoogstraten
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Caro Restrepo
FOUNDER AND CEO: Thorsten S. Wiedemann
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND FESTIVAL COMMUNICATION: Johanna Keil
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Philipp Röbke
CODE OF CONDUCT AND SAFER SPACE COORDINATOR: Ana Jeličić
Olivia Khan

Exhibitions

EXHIBITION COORDINATOR: Marc Bauer
Anatol Glebov
EXHIBITION PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Konrad Entner
SOKPOP EXHIBITION - CURATOR: Paul Schmidt
SOKPOP EXHIBITION - SCENOGRAPHY: Jules Spath
PANKE CULTURE + GALLERY COORDINATOR: Bernd Skischally
VILLAGE COORDINATOR: Ana Jeličić
OPEN SCREENS COORDINATION: Philipp Gong
EXHIBITION DESIGN MAIN EXHIBITION: Dan Dorocic
Victor Navarra
EXHIBITION POWER: Wahid Del Sol

Program

A MAZE. INVITES COORDINATOR: Christopher Krause
A MAZE. BAZAAR FACILITATOR: Fi Glorian
CRAFTING AREA WORKSHOPS: Svenja Anhut
CRAFTING AREA WORKSHOP ASSISTANT: Nils Sommer
GAME JAM ORGANIZER: Gianluca Pandolfo
AMAZING X-M4RK3T: A MAZE. team

Style

FESTIVAL DESIGN: Beata Niedhart / FUK
Oliver Spieker / FUK
ANIMATION & ILLUSTRATION: Nomi
WEBSITE DESIGN & PROGRAMMING: Daniel F. Wehleit / 1XN
Nadir Sanchez / 1XN
AWARDS SYSTEM CODER: Florian Stolzenhain
SOUND & MUSIC: Oda Tilset
INFOMERCIALS COPYWRITING: Scott Polhemus

Public Relations

PUBLIC RELATIONS & PRESS: Nike Wilhelms
PHOTOGRAPHER: Jens Keiner
SOCIAL MEDIA PARTNER: Ian Stewart
PARTNER MANAGEMENT & SOCIAL MEDIA (IG, TIKTOK): Johanna Keil
DISCORD: Matthias Löwenotter
FESTIVAL VIDEO: Regina Wiebe

Stream

STREAMING / AWARDS PRODUCTION: IN THEORY GmbH
ANIMATIONS: Nomi
LOGO ANIMATION: Beata Niedhart / FUK

Ticketing & Guest Management

TICKETING MANAGER: Johanna Keil
TICKETING ASSISTANT: Tobi Weiß
GUEST MANAGEMENT: Yannika Markfort

Volunteers

VOLUNTEER COORDINATION: Cate Tavagnutti
VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT: Olivia Khan

Nao Argouse, Léonard Vasseur, Jun Poli-Tessier, Lola KARIM, Anthony Lethuillier Le Toquin, Dylhan Phong, Baptiste Mouton, Johanna Birraldacci, Anthony Danis, Nat Branco, Clara Lorenz, Abhi Mehta, Mike Lazarov, Abood Alrimawi, Louis Guillaumeau, Antonia Hoch, Sam Riemenschneider, Alex Pfeifer, Moritz Speckmann, Miri Preiß, Baton Sadiku, Justin Herrmann, Bex Stolte, Lucas Vially, Gizem Zengin, Alp Kurt, Lainy Dreibach, Taya Malakhova, Alex Jolkver, Leon Gooihl, koray yilmaz, Joseph Wacker, Stina Main, Benjamin Garbotz, Sam, Cass Dzieduszycki, Finn Fuchs, Charlie Vincent, Nino Fouray, Lara Plewig, Anka Stetzkowski, Elina Schröder, André Schrader, Helen Zengerle, Agustina BöthigGargiulo, Alise Apine, Marta Vedral, Mari Sosnovskaia, Harry Hudson, Carlotta Trotnow, Hendrik Wagner, Alicia Jaison, Alex Bobb, Carlo Metzdorf, Berta Hetmann, Anna Schmidt, Eli Gouge, Fifi Aufort, Sumin Lee, Simon Feugeas, Enrico Tavagnutti, Manaut Berton-Boitel, Bastien Patout, Jacques Clery-Salenave, Victor Benoin, Dorian Desplats, Colette Plessier, Anton Shevtsov, moeva mondoha, Jonas Wehling, Marianna Koszutska, Wiktoria Szokalska, Nathan MEZZA, Victor Morello, Idun Jonsson, Jules Morley, Tommy Grzembke, Logan Gabriel, Lena Jovanovic, Yves Zenz, Tolga schneider, Anna Rastostsenkova, Chris Alexander, Sebastian Böwing, Fran Janot, Madina Kairolla, Sophie Lehmann, Joyshree Mozumder, Pamoda Rodrigo, Nora Mukhametkali, Gizmo Bülbül, Mascha Kobylenko, Christoph Maureder, Xin Yu, Run Zan, Hugo Oudot, Volker Stäps, David Cook, Fabian Bubla, Simon Skvara, Marie Tereshchenko, Calea Lesselt, Flora Löffelbein, Elli Korte, Sina Rezaeinejad, Herkus Savickas, Théo Lamolinairie, Eyal Peleg Harris, Erbse Trapp, Lee Neusel, Leon Rehmann, merle eckhardt, Marvin Oex, Calvin Galonska, Gina Vörde, Levent Cracea, Nele Katzwinkel, Isa Spitznagel, Shamika Biswas, Ista Hussain, Hannes Kotthoff, Diana Niculescu, Momo Hernandez, Rakan Assaf, Stas Vysotska, Sophie Solovyeva, Kyryl Schwarz, Cal Chevreul, Jesse Duplechain, Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher, Prahdeep Chhatwal, Lucy Ziener, Lena Wehrenfennig, Chrissi Gottsleben, Ilias Christovassilis, Lennart Schultz, Aiden Willmann, Sasha Zhelezniak, Jacob Beiten, Helene Tharrault, Valeri Burnashev, Mary Otto, Deniz Selek, Ivan Kalasouski, Zsóka Bugár, Fatih Gülen, Lucas Hochar, Felix Breßler, Charlene Masri, Multi Akiapo, Amina Baiduissen, Alexandru Umbres, Farfama Hargaaya