The art program 'Reclaiming the Amazons' invites participants to critically engage with different artworks depicting Amazon warrior women and explore the intersection of gender, ecology, and colonial history in relation to the Amazons and the Amazon region. The program consists of four workshops across Berlin and a closing event at the Altes Museum Berlin, and is organized by Amazonen in Berlin (Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett).

'Ardeidae', co-directed by C. Faggionato, C. Chiatti and D. Tucci, is one of the video artworks presented as part of Cinema Galleggiante ~ Acque Sconosciute. From August 22nd to September 7th 2025, Cinema Galleggiante returns to the Venetian lagoon, transforming its water into a stage for a rich program of screenings and performances by international and local artists. The program explores experimental forms at the intersection of sound and the moving image, spanning cinema and the visual arts.

Amazonen in Berlin, artists Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett, will host a workshop at the Seeding Freedom Festival, Berlin’s one and only ecofeminist festival.

Re-Routing welcomes the collective 'Amazonen in Berlin', formed by Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett, to Co-Making Matters at Haus der Statistik as the next walking resident. During their residency, the collective will reflect and continue their artistic walking research.

The statues of the ancient warrior women 'Amazonen' in Berlin Mitte invite participants on a journey to reflect on the appropriation of women's bodies and the land from an ecofeminist and decolonial perspective. Through somatic exercises, lecture performances and an audio installation, the project actively engages with the statues and public space. Organised by Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett.

The art workshop 'Barbie or Not to Be! Re-thinking Superheroines*' with Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett will begin on June 1st and take place every Saturday for six sessions at the Mädchentreff Pia Olymp in Lichtenberg, Berlin.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened at Vizantrop, Festival of Engaged Ethnographic Film, in Belgrade. The festival fosters dialogue around cultural diversity, identity and social change through ethnographic and socially engaged films.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by C. Faggionato, C. Chiatti and D. Tucci, wins the SoMe Award for Human Relationships at SoMe Festival in Bucharest. SoMe is an alternative video festival experience that encourages the public to explore the city through a treasure hunt in order to view the videos selected under the Inhabitat curatorial theme.

On Saturday, July 22nd, a group of international artists invite you to a public tour through postcolonial interventions in the everyday in Berlin Wedding. The participating artists and researchers have created interventions into the postcolonial technologies that are widespread in common urban spaces.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM wins the First Prize Best Short Documentary Director at the Istanbul International Nartugan Film Festivali (IINFF), a festival celebrating sun ritual cultures from around the world.

'Der "Maya" Zug' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM - Juan José Chiriz Cuat is one of the projects exhibited in This Is Not A Love Song, a public art project along the Marzahner Promenade in Berlin gathering 18 international artists for 50 events over the summer.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM wins the First Prize Raíz as Best International Short Documentary at Biophilia International Film Festival in Mexico City, dedicated to ecology, nature, native peoples and collective memory.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by Chiara Faggionato, Corrado Chiatti and Daniele Tucci, is screened at the Venice Architecture Film Festival, dedicated to architecture, public space and community. The 2021 edition takes place at the Giardini della Marinaressa, Venice.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by Chiara Faggionato, Corrado Chiatti and Daniele Tucci, is screened as part of Feet in the Water, Eyes on the Land at Ocean Space, Venice — the planetary centre for ocean-focused art and research established by TBA21–Academy.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by Chiara Faggionato, Corrado Chiatti and Daniele Tucci, is screened as part of En marge de l'architecture — Encounters beyond the discipline, at the Salon Suisse during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

'Rebel Statues' is a new art education program for FLINTA* youth in Berlin, organised by Amazonen in Berlin and led by artists Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett. Through a series of workshops, participants explore statues in public space and the gender stereotypes they embody. Working with clay, they create alternative rebellious figures for the city. The project concludes with a final exhibition at Projektraum Galerie M presenting the works.

Amazonen in Berlin, artists Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett, are invited as guests to organize an artistic walk for the seminar 'Ecological Thresholds: Environment, Activism, and the Future of Museums' at UdK Berlin, led by Brazilian curator, art mediator and artist Viviane Tabach.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by C. Faggionato, C. Chiatti and D. Tucci, is featured in the exhibition Natural Flow. Exploring Water’s Essence, running from March 1 to 22, 2025, at the Cultural Hypogeum of the Lega Navale Italiana in Matera. Natural Flow gathers contemporary voices, inviting visitors to dive into a poetic and fluid dialogue with this primordial element.

'Der "Maya" Zug' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM – Juan José Chiriz Cuat was selected as a finalist in the international competition Contrat Social pour le 21e siècle, organised by the Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Geneva. The competition invited interdisciplinary projects from around the world to respond to the question: What social contract for the 21st century?

'Ardeidae' and 'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato are featured in the Focus on Experimental Documentary section of Visual Container TV, an international video art web channel presenting video art projects and festivals from around the world since 2009.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened at Ethnografilm Festival in Paris, celebrating the art and science of non-fiction filmmaking and promoting video ethnography. The 2024 edition features over 100 works by documentary and academic filmmakers.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival (SVAFMF) in Toronto, presenting the best of ethnographic film and media across 53 films in 16 thematic programs.

'DEVILS OF THE FIELDS' by Chiara Faggionato wins the Folk Arts Hub Foundation Special Prize at Apricot Tree International Film Festival, Armenia.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened at the 3rd International Ecoperformance Film Festival in São Paulo, bringing together artists from 28 countries to investigate the tensions between environment, body and ancestry through an ecopoetic and cinematographic lens.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened at Etnovideográfica, International Ethnographic Festival, at the Ethnographic Museum of Castilla y León, Zamora. The festival explores cultural, social and political diversity through ethnographic documentary.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened as part of POSITIONED REALITIES at Haus der Statistik, Berlin, within the program of The Privilege of Dreaming. After the screening, IQ BALAM holds a talk on how Maya rituals have resisted Christianity and colonialism.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM wins the Second Prize in Religious Movie Competition at VIVA Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The festival takes place from September 22nd to 26th, 2021.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM - Juan José Chiriz Cuat is screened as part of ANIMISM ON FILM, an evening of short films at Origins Festival, London. The screening is followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and author Graham Harvey.

'DEVILS OF THE FIELDS' by Chiara Faggionato is screened at Lavoro Fragile. Pratiche Resistenti, a multidisciplinary event at Mare Culturale Urbano, Milan, exploring the meaning and conditions of work today through art, testimony and cultural exchange.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by C. Faggionato, C. Chiatti and D. Tucci, will be screened at 'Speculative Ecologies', a special program by the Vierte Welle Film Festival on 17 September at the Lichtblick Kino in Berlin. This new VWFF program explores the intersection of speculative ecology and feminist science fiction, imagining futures where humans coexist with the technological, the geological, and the more-than-living.

'DEVILS OF THE FIELDS' by Chiara Faggionato will be screened on Sunday, July 13th, along the banks of the Retrone River. The films presented during the screening offer personal and diverse perspectives on people, places, and stories belonging to the neighborhood Ferrovieri.

The Amazons welcome you in the space they have long inhabited in the city: the Altes Museum. Through an ecofeminist and decolonial lens, you will be invited to engage with the ancient warrior women, the legendary tales about them, and their home in Berlin. The project is organized by Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett.

Mònde, the Film Festival dedicated to the theme of walking paths and travels in Monte Sant'Angelo, returns this year from October 3 to 6. The film 'Ardeidae', which will be presented by director Chiara Faggionato, offers a dystopian vision of the Venice lagoon—a place suspended between beauty and decay. This film invites reflection on themes such as cultural memory and the fragility of our environment.

'DEVILS OF THE FIELDS' by Chiara Faggionato will be part of the collective exhibition Mythology Inspired, open at Spazio Millepiani from July 5 to 31, 2024. The exhibition aims to acknowledge a specific role for mythology, understood as a source of literary, imaginative, and artistic inspiration. The selected artists exhibit photographic, digital, and video works that, in some way, draw inspiration from the past—from our roots—to speak to the present.

'DEVILS OF THE FIELDS' by Chiara Faggionato is screened as part of Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival in Buenos Aires. The festival presents video poetry as a hybrid and transdisciplinary genre at the intersection of experimental poetry, video art and new technologies.

'Ardeidae', co-directed by Chiara Faggionato, Corrado Chiatti and Daniele Tucci, is part of Forgotten Places, curated by LoosenArt at Spazio Millepiani, Rome, as part of Rome Art Week — a group exhibition exploring abandoned and rediscovered places.

Chiara Faggionato participates in tell the story or it goes, a video art exhibition curated by Irina Hentea at MATCA artspace, Cluj-Napoca, bringing together international artists around works with an inherent urgency to be told.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is part of Night Skies and Astro Imaging, curated by LoosenArt at Spazio Millepiani, Rome — a group exhibition tracing a dialogue between ancient cosmologies and contemporary visual languages.

Chiara Faggionato participates in the international residency Extractivism and its discontents, organised by Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) as part of documenta fifteen in Kassel — bringing together artists, activists and researchers to investigate extractive economies and their cultural and ecological implications.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened as part of Summoning, curated by OKTA Collective as part of Vorspiel transmediale Festival, Berlin — the opening programme of transmediale, one of Europe's leading festivals for art and digital culture.

'AJAW Q'IJ' by Chiara Faggionato and IQ BALAM is screened at the Religion Today Film Festival in Trento — one of Italy's most established festivals dedicated to spiritual and interreligious cinema, founded in 1997. The 25th edition presents 83 films from 36 countries.

'DEVILS OF THE FIELDS,' directed by Chiara Faggionato, wins First Prize for Best Medium-Length Film at the Arte Non Stop Film Festival in Buenos Aires.

Three young directors under 35 (Davide Crudetti, Chiara Faggionato, Carlo Tartivita) tell the story of the suburbs, interweaving this narrative with the theme of work. The project will tell through cinema the story of the Ferrovieri district in Vicenza and its historically close relationship with work.