An intimate glance into the Burmese life and culture in the months preceding the 2021 military coup. A meditation on Freedom & Peace to support the People of Myanmar in their struggle towards a more equal society.

“It breathes peace and wisdom. It brings one closer to the truth”

Terrence Malick, Director of The Tree of Life, The New World, Voyage of Time

Guardians of Paradise

A film by Ivan Maria Friedman
Music by Max Richter
Switzerland, 2021
11 min 48 sec

An ode to the worlds forever beyond our reach, hidden in the mysterious depths of our cosmos.

“Breathtaking and inspiring”

David Kipping, Astronomer.

Other Worlds

A film by Ivan Maria Friedman

Switzerland 2021
13 min

“Where Memories Live", directed by Ivan Maria Friedman, invites you into the evocative world of artist photographer Rafael Rojas and his partner, Anca Minican.

Where Memories Live

A film by Ivan Maria Friedman
Music by J.S. BACH / Dimitri Maslennikov
Switzerland, 2024
13 min 20 sec

This short film draws the portrait of La Pyay Win, a young mother who lives at a garbage dump on the outskirts of the historical and holy site of Bagan - Myanmar. She, her husband and their 3 kids are trying their best to survive, reselling whatever recyclable waste they could find on the site.

A Window Wide Open

A film by Ivan Maria Friedman
Music by Djivan Gasparjan
Switzerland, 2024
7 min

A short collection of fading memories from a trip to Venice

Evanescent

Film by Ivan Maria Friedman
Switzerland 2015
1m 43 sec

“Eclipse”, un poem en images, a visual poem, was filmed using a new and personal approach on the infrared technique, merged with an organic unscripted process five years in the making. The Movie is an aesthetic/symbolic visual essay exploring the idea of Katabasis and redemption. Read More…

Eclipse

A film by Ivan Maria Friedman
Switzerland, 2016
16 min

Wilderness, shot in 2015, was meant to be an infrared study for some of the scenes later to be included in another infrared project named "Eclipse", that was released in 2019.

Wilderness

A film by Ivan Maria Friedman
Italy, 2015
3 min 43 sec

This is the LIBOSON, a medieval residence located in the Swiss Alps and inhabited by writers, philosophers and painters Paul du Marchie and his wife Nicole. A beautifully suggestive place and two astonishing people, whose life is totally dedicated to Art and Philosophy. Paul and Nicole were painting and writing. I was playing piano, during long afternoons. Outside the snow kept falling day after day.