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Elegy For A Glacier

Elegy For A Glacier

Elegy For A Glacier is a poetic short film that meditates on loss, memory, and transformation within the vanishing cryosphere. Through immersive imagery and sound, it traces the fragile dialogue between humans and melting ice, inviting viewers into a space of reverence, mourning, and reconnection. The film becomes both a lament and love letter - a call to remember what is disappearing and to rekindle kinship with the more-than-human world. By Sarah Bachinger

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

The Skinnies

The Skinnies

A short animated film about animals that gather around a water reservoir. Their carelessness causes a shortage of water, which leads to quarrels between them. Jan Svenšek

Duration : 2m
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

Alhambra, the treasure of the last sultanate of Spain

Alhambra, the treasure of the last sultanate of Spain

A fortress of light and silence. The Alhambra reveals the last breath of Islamic Spain, where geometry became poetry and stone became faith. Between shadow and sun, beauty resists time itself. 2024, Marc Jampolsky, a meditation on memory, mastery and the legacy of Islamic art

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

Climate Art – From Protest to Utopia

Climate Art – From Protest to Utopia

Artists like Olafur Eliasson and Sebastião Salgado turn fear into vision. From Europe to the Global South, creation becomes resistance. Art imagines futures where science hesitates. 2025, Mathias Frick, exploring how artists transform climate anxiety into action and hope. Climate, Art, Activism, Sustainability, Global South

Duration : 2m
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

Anemone No 1

Anemone No 1

Anemone transforms a familiar object—a pair of my rubber gloves—into luminous, tentacled forms that evoke strange marine organisms. Photographed among the mangroves near my home on the southeast coast of Australia, and reimagined with AI, this work explores the shifting boundary between nature and technology, highlighting the impact of human activity on fragile ecosystems. Sound: https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_15018884/sounds/698018/ Katherine Boland

Duration : 45s
Maturity Level : all

Business Man

Business Man

Business Man is about greed and extraction—the endless pillaging of the earth for profit. The suited figures are symbols of the systems built on power and consumption, a reminder of the forces that strip landscapes bare while appearing respectable, even necessary. This work points to what’s lost: habitats destroyed, ecosystems unravelled, species pushed to collapse. It exposes the gap between corporate polish and the environmental ruin it conceals. Katherine Boland

Duration : 21s
Maturity Level : all

LEPIDOPTERA

LEPIDOPTERA

Lepidoptera is an experimental moving image piece, telling the parallel narratives of childhood trauma and insect extinction - specifically butterflies. To depict this narrative, the artist hand-printed the entire film using a variety of analogue and photographic processes; around 2600 individual images in total, incorporating natural elements of his home landscape. Edd Carr

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all