The Animation Festival ICONA 2025, which took place from November 13th to 16th 2025, exclusively online, by the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, was successfully completed.
The festival program included both professional and student competitions. A total of 316 films from 100 countries were screened.
For those who didn't catch the movie screenings of the ICONA FESTIVAL 2025 or for those who would like to see the movies again, you will be able to watch them on demand, available from December 17th until 31st 2025:
The festival jury consisted of the Director of the Festival Konstantinos Tiligadis, Professor at Ionian University and Deputy Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Assistant Professor of the University of the Aegean, Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos, the Professor of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at University of Western Macedonia, Vasilis Bouzas, the Associate Professor Spyridon Siakas of the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, University of West Attika, and the Associate Professor of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University, Fotis Raftopoulos, evaluated the films and awarded the following Awards 2025.
The Festival's Award Ceremony, presented by Marily Argyrokastriti member of Ionian University, took place online on Sunday, November 16th, 2025. The ceremony started with the greetings by the Head of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Associate Professor Michail Panagopoulos, the Director of the ICONA Festival, Professor Konstantinos Tiligadis, the Assistant Professor of the University of the Aegean, Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos, the Professor of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at University of Western Macedonia, Vasilis Bouzas, the Associate Professor and member of the festival jury, Spyridon Siakas.
The best part of the ceremony was the participation of several of the winners - from Belgium, Israel, Brazil, Costa Rica - who received their awards and spoke about their films and experiences from their participation in the ICONA Festival 2025.
See you in the next ICONA, see you in ICONA FESTIVAL 2026! Stay tuned!
Press Release: Closing of the Festival and Awars
