Awards Ceremony
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our Jewish colleagues — talented creative professionals, Max Epstein and Natalia Ryss — for the amazing and ceremonial organization of the Jerusalem season of the Diogenes Festival.
Co-Founder and Director of the Festival, Koba Tskhakaia
Congratulations everyone!
6th International Internet Short Film Festival DIOGENES, Jerusalem season
Awards from Main Jury:
Grand Prize from Main Jury – I AM FINE Osi Wald, Israel, 2025
Grand Prize Debut from Main Jury – Milk Flowing Land, Amit Levi, Ester Pazur, Roni Salinger, Stav Fridman, Israel, 2025
The Best Live Action – From where does the wind know which way to blow? Athar Kalantari, Iran, 2024
The Best Documentary – Art Ponedilok. Arriving in Berlin, Maria and Natalia Petschatnkov, Germany, 2025
The Best Animation – Entropic Memory, Nicolas Brault, Canada, 2024
The Best Experimental – O/S, Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2023
The Best Music Video – It’s cold, Maria Rakitina, Estonia, 2024
Honorable Mention from
Tracy Miller-Robbins (United States) – Uncle Bardo Luke Misruzzi, Canada, 2023
The film places you inside an ethereal, gentle world where experimental animation and documentary footage intertwine, using simple, human moments—writing down phone numbers, sensing that something isn’t right—to speak plainly and poetically about loved ones, mortality, and that fragile space between life and death, with Uncle Bardo resonating both as a real person and as a puppet that quietly connects it all.
Honorable Mention from
Giorgi Razmadze (Georgia) – Sinkholes, Karen Russo, United Kingdom, 2025
For capturing abstract concepts and unseen physical forces through masterful audiovisual and narrative storytelling
Honorable Mention from
Olga Goltser (Israel) – In Between city, Ilya Kreines, Israel, 2023
The film was created while limiting the pictorial and animation tools and exhausting their use to the point of realizing the idea. The idea of a stamp – the traces of perception and memory – conveys to the viewer an intimate experience of discovering the differences and similarities between two cities through the eyes of the creator.
Awards from Student Jury:
Grand Prize from Student Jury – Entropic Memory, Nicolas Brault, Canada, 2024
Grand Prize Debut from Student Jury – Milk Flowing Land, Amit Levi, Ester Pazur, Roni Salinger, Stav Fridman, Israel, 2025
Honorable Mention from
Tamar Zandukeli (Georgia) – Uncle Bardo Luke Misruzzi, Canada, 2023
“Uncle Bardo“ by Luke Misruzzi, for innovative visual storytelling and effective sound design.
Honorable Mention from
Angelo Lombardo (United States) – Maaimä, Lucija Mrzljak, Estonia, 2024
“Maaimä” is a song that caught my attention thanks to its style, which offers a very interesting exploration, and combined with the background music, it stands out even more for me.
Honorable Mention from
Yonatan Rinenber (Israel) – 1/Man, Anna Solovey, Israel, 2025
My choice for an honorable mention is “1/Man”, because the spirit of an experiment is very alive in it. The relationship between two very different cities, Jerusalem and Sain Petersburg create unique and fascinating language, and the strange mix of ridicule and pain is a touch on the real deep of the genius works of Daniel Kharms.
Honorable Mention from Festival Staff:
1. The Hour Coat, Amy Kravitz, United States, 2022
For the outstanding style and dramaturgy in experimental cinema.
2. No Name Story, Wild Kids Students, Israel 2025
For deep immersion in the world film making by irony and experiments with traditional narratives.
Max Epstein
Produser of the festival
Natalia Ryss,
Program Director of the festival
