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Story of Alaska-Trailer

Story of Alaska-Trailer

Step into the heart of Alaska, where art, memory, and land are one and where we are face-to-face with Native voices echoing across generations. [Watch the film,https://ikonotv.art/watch/4191/the-story-of-art-in-alaska]

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Untouchable

Untouchable

The Hindu caste system is over 3,000 years old. It divides society into four main varna (social classes), which are inherited at birth. Below this is a fifth group, who are outside the caste system. They are known as “Dalits” (“Untouchables”). This is Ram Kumari’s story. By David Jobanputra

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

LAND

LAND

As climate change increasingly transfigures our world, two artists living on different continents, (Nii Obodai from Ghana, and Nakajima Hiroyuki from Japan), explain how their creative work reflects what the notion of "LAND" means to them. Martin Cooper

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Joana Mallwitz – Momentum

Joana Mallwitz – Momentum

A conductor of fire and grace. Joana Mallwitz leads with brilliance and vulnerability, between scores, cities, and motherhood. A portrait of modern genius in motion. 2024, Günter Atteln, capturing the energy and humanity of a rising orchestral star

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Eye Trap

Eye Trap

Inside Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow, nothing is as it seems. A meditation on seeing, illusion, and the secrets that hide beneath beauty. 2024, Thomas Sipp, unveiling the hidden meanings within a Renaissance masterpiece

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Pianoforte

Pianoforte

Ten young pianists. One sacred stage. The Chopin Competition reveals the soul behind perfection, trembling, brilliant, alive. Each note, a heartbeat between dream and despair. 2023, Jakub Piątek, observing youth and ambition in the world’s most demanding piano competition.

Duration : 45s
Maturity Level : all

Wider Than the Sky

Wider Than the Sky

A man learns to speak by daring to be silent no more. Joze Piranian transforms his stutter into strength, his voice into art. A story of courage, laughter, and self-love that transcends words. 2024, Josiane Blanc, a tribute to resilience, inclusion and the healing power of storytelling.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Orlando

Orlando

In music’s golden age, Roland de Lassus composes between faith and fragility. A journey through sacred sound, human longing, and divine harmony. 2024, Joachim Thôme, celebrating the emotional depth of Renaissance music and its creator

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Words Left Unspoken

Words Left Unspoken

A man learns to speak by daring to be silent no more. Joze Piranian transforms his stutter into strength, his voice into art. A story of courage, laughter, and self-love that transcends words. 2024, Josiane Blanc, a tribute to resilience, inclusion and the healing power of storytelling.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

More Than a Museum

More Than a Museum

The new Munch Museum rises like a question to the sky: what should museums of the future feel like Architecture, memory, and vision meet in Oslo’s light. 2024, Morrosko Vila-San-Juan, reflecting on architecture, identity and the soul of cultural spaces.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

From Istanbul to Beirut, Baghdad to Cairo

From Istanbul to Beirut, Baghdad to Cairo

From Istanbul to Beirut, Baghdad to Cairo, artists of the Arab world carve their own modernities. East and West dissolve into color, courage, and creation. 2025, Ilana Navarro, revealing forgotten modernities across the Middle East through art.

Duration : 56s
Maturity Level : all

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Between Gaza and exile, a filmmaker and a witness weave fragments of life and loss. A requiem for courage and for the voice silenced too soon. 2025, Sepideh Farsi, born from collaboration and grief, honoring resistance through film

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Poet, dreamer, provocateur. Jean Cocteau lived art as destiny, blending word, image, and myth into pure invention. A luminous portrait of France’s eternal enfant terrible. 2025, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, reflecting on genius, love and the creative fire of modernity

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Mesopotamia, the Rise of Cities

Mesopotamia, the Rise of Cities

Among ruins and rivers, archaeologists awaken the first cities of humankind. A film where dust remembers and civilization begins again. 2024, Olivier Julien, exploring archaeology, rebirth and the timeless roots of urban life.

Duration : 51s
Maturity Level : all

John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger

John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger

Portraits that breathe, fabrics that speak. Sargent captured elegance and identity as mirrors of an age. A dance between art, fashion, and power. 2024, David Bickerstaff, unveiling how portraiture shaped modern identity and style.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

The Color of Pomegranates

The Color of Pomegranates

Dance becomes devotion. Mourad Merzouki and Saté Khachatryan revive Parajanov’s baroque world through movement and light. An ode to Armenia, where color breathes, and rhythm prays. 2025, Sergei Parajanov, a cinematic tribute to heritage through choreography.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

DEPOT — Reflecting Boijmans

DEPOT — Reflecting Boijmans

Behind Rotterdam’s mirrored façade, art and memory shimmer. The world’s first visible museum storage opens its soul to the public. A reflection on transparency and the beauty of preservation. 2024, Sonia Herman Dolz, about how architecture and art redefine public access to heritage

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

BAFF Channel

BAFF Channel

We are proud to welcome the Beirut Art Film Festival (BAFF) to ikonoTV, [a channel dedicated,https://ikonotv.art/Channels/197/baff-2025] to films that illuminate what holds us together. In times of conflict, climate urgency, and digital noise, BAFF stands as a beacon of creation and conscience. Each film is a heartbeat, a reminder that art still speaks truth, awakens empathy, and rebuilds meaning where words fall short. This 11th edition gathers voices from around the world: artists who believe that humanity is not a theme but the essence of creation itself. A curated channel of festival trailers celebrating the artistry and vision behind each film, transforming cinema into a prayer for peace, a manifesto of resilience, a gesture of hope. Because every story that dares to care becomes part of our shared survival.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Ai Weiwei’s Turandot

Ai Weiwei’s Turandot

Opera becomes a battlefield for truth. Ai Weiwei turns Puccini’s myth into a manifesto on freedom and the fragility of power. Beauty meets resistance, and the stage burns bright. 2025, Maxim Derevianko, documenting Ai Weiwei’s operatic debut and his fight for artistic freedom.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

E.1027 – Eileen Gray

E.1027 – Eileen Gray

She built a refuge of light. He turned it into obsession. Eileen Gray’s masterpiece stands on the Côte d’Azur, a song of independence and form, where architecture becomes emotion. 2024, Beatrice Minger, portraying the struggle for authorship and feminine vision in modern design

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Change CLIMATE CHANGE

Change CLIMATE CHANGE

This short film provides a unique perspective on our climate emergency from the viewpoint of the generation who will be most affected. It is a cross-generational collaboration between a class of eight and nine- year old children and photographer Gideon Mendel who has been photographing and filming in communities around the world affected by flooding and fire for the last eighteen years. The film weaves together the beautiful artworks made by the pupils, situating them in close dialogue with Gideon’s photographs and video footage that inspired them. Through changes of medium from photographic print to drawing to video, this film explores the tension between documentary reality and creative storytelling and is a powerful challenge to us all from a remarkable and globally diverse group of children. By Gideon Mendel and the Year 4 Class at Mandeville Primary School, Hackney, London

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

From Trash to Treasure

From Trash to Treasure

From erosion to overgrazing to enduring poverty, the people of Lesotho—a highland country surrounded by South Africa—face a variety of difficult challenges. Yet grassroots communities in the country also exhibit tremendous resourcefulness and creativity. In particular, a wealth of artists have mastered a talent for resurrection, developing the skill to creatively turn negatives into positives: Designers who turn discarded trash into beautiful jewelry, clothes, rugs. Filmmakers who turn tragedy into artistic expressions of resilience and compassion. Musicians who write songs to save the environment. In this short, Cultures of Resistance Films profiles a variety of these inventive creators, introducing viewers to a fascinating cast of local residents who are using art as a means of communicating a communal desire for positive change. Iara Lee and Cultures of Resistance Films

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

My Ancestors Were Farmers

My Ancestors Were Farmers

The film explores the fading memory of Javanese agrarian culture through the traditional Wiwitan ritual, a ceremonial rice harvest that embodies the spiritual harmony between humans, nature, and ancestral spirits. As modernity encroaches, this sacred practice gradually disappears, taking with it generations of wisdom and ecological connection. Through a poetic and narrative approach, the film revives ancestral energy and transforms nature into a spoken message, adapted from the Wiwitan tradition. More than a visual archive, this cinematic work serves as a gentle act of resistance against forgetting, a call to honor the language of nature and the wisdom of tradition before they vanish completely. By Lucky Wisnu

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Crown of Thorns

Crown of Thorns

What does it feel like to be a starfish? This meditation on consciousness explores the unique experience of two of Australia’s invasive starfish and reckons with how we project our lived experience onto the creatures we live alongside. By Georgia Krause

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all