Festivals
"Niggun is a strangely rewarding film, because it gives off a whimsical vibe, but evokes a deeper, sadder sense of wisdom and enlightenment. " -J. B. Spins
Awards & Nominations
Winner - *BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM* World Film Festival of Veracruz, Mexico
Winner - BEST SCREENPLAY Global India International Film Festival
Winner - BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM The South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile.
Finalist for "Human/Nature" Special Award - kepto International Film Festival, Cagliari, Italy
Finalist independent short category - Animix Tel Aviv 2017
Innovation prise - Utopia sci-fi festival, Israel
Nominated for animation film contest - Utah Film Festival and Awards
Competition in the INTERNATIONAL category - 2nd Ajayu International Festival 2017
Finalist at 1st Hermetic International Film Festival , Venice, Italy
PLATINUM REMI prise at 51st Annual Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival 2018 Texas US
Animation Nights New York (ANNY) New York, USA, January 2020
The 6th The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival (http://www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com/) in New York, USA.
2018 Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ! New york
13th ATHENS ANIMFEST (https://athensanimfest.eu) in Athens, Greece.
4th FECIME - FESTIVAL CINEMATOGRÁFICO DE MÉRIDA (https://fecime96.wixsite.com/festivalfecime/ganadores) in Mérida, Yucatán, México. 8th-11th of February.
The South Film and Arts Academy Festival (https://scafafest.wixsite.com/sfaaf), held in Chile.
DFK New Wave (http://newwave.directorsfortnight.com/), held on Kolkata, India, on March 30-April 1st.
Utah Film Festival and Awards (http://www.theutahfilmawards.com/), held in Utah, USA, on April 5-7.
Skepto International Film Festival (http://www.skepto.net/), Cagliari, Italy, on April 18-21 2018.
Lanus International Film Festival (http://lafic2016.weebly.com/), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 1-4.
Cardiff Animation Festival (http://www.cardiffanimation.com/), held in Cardiff, Wales, UK, on April 19-22.
14th Jewish Motifs International Film Festival 2018 (http://jewishmotifs.org.pl/) in Warsaw, Poland.
The 18th Independent Days International Film Festival 2018 (https://www.independentdays-filmfest.com/) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
28th WJFF - WASHINGTON JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL (www.wjff.org) in Washington, USA. The festival dates are 2nd - 13th of May.
41st GRENZLAND-FILMTAGE (www.grenzlandfilmtage-selb.de) in Selb, Germany 5th - 8th of April
15th BOGOSHORTS - BOGOTÁ SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (www.bogoshorts.com) in Bogota, Colombia
SHORT to the Point (http://spunepescurt.ro/), held in Romania.
The 1st Hermetic International Film Festival 2018 (http://hermeticfilmfestival.com/) in Venice, Italy. March 1 - March 2, 2018.
The 17th Ozark Foothills Film Festival 2018 (http://www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org/) in Batesville, Arkansas, USA. April 19 - April 28, 2018.
Haifa film festival - animation competition 2017
FICABC- 3rd Atlantic International Film Festival , Colombia
Animix 2017 Tel Aviv
Anination - Jerusalem film festival 2017
Quito Independent World Film Festival (https://femuciq.wordpress.com/), held in Ecuador, on March 13-16. 2018
9th Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival - Korea
Animasyros 10 International Animation Festival 2017
Portobello Film Festival - England 2017
The Hollywood North Film Festival (HNFF)
Red Rock Film Festival, 2017 Cedar City, Utah
2nd Ajayu International Festival 2017 - Official Selection in Competition in the INTERNATIONAL category
15th Multivision Festival (http://new.multivision.ru/en/) in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Utopia, science fiction and fantasy film festival, Tel Aviv. Winner of Innovation award.
12th LECCE FILM FEST (Official Selection, Lecce, Italy)
21st Miami Jewish Film Festival
3th BAHIA INDEPENDENT CINEMA FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil)
Near Nazareth Festival (http://www.nnfestival.tk/)
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival (http://www.csiff.meditativeyoga.in/), Pune, India
1st GLOBAL INDIA INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Pune, India)
DFK New Wave (http://newwave.directorsfortnight.com/), held on Kolkata, India, on March 30-April 1st
ANNUAL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FESTIVAL, The Museum of Pop Culture, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Seattle, USA
Blue Danube Film Festival - Online. http://www.bluedanubefilmfestival.hu/
THE 51st ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON festival, Houston, TX USA
Jewish culture festival in Krakow, Poland. 28/6/18.
Kleinkaap Short Film Festival, South Africa on July 29th 2018.
TRIESTE SCIENCE+FICTION FESTIVAL 2018. Italy.
World Film Festival of Veracruz, held in Veracruz, Mexico, from October 8th-12th.
Yoni salmon, director of Niggun, meets Joanna queen at Cardiff animation festival 2018