DIOGENES

About

Tbilisi International Short Film Internet Festival “Diogenes 2023” has been active for the previous three years.

The main aspiration of our internet festival is the propaganda of low-budget short film production;

Our duty is to select, objectively assess and recommend the movies, that use simple cinematographic methods, but tell the most interesting and polymorphous stories in 15 minutes.

“If it is impossible to project the interesting tale in 15 minutes, then there is no story or the teller is poor.” – this is the basis of the festival.

We invite you all, the movie directors, to participate.

The motto of this year’s festival is “love ascends us”.

Awards

The presented films will be selected by a commission composed of professionals and the best works are handed over to a competent international jury. 

Films participating in the competition must be presented in any digital format (including vertical format, i.e. movies shot with smartphones held vertically).

The winning films will be nominated by genres – feature, documentary, video art/animation, experimental. 

The Festival’s jury will award the winning films with 4 grand prizes and 5 diplomas.

One special prize and one special diploma “Serenada” will be awarded to the films selected by the Georgian Film Academy commission.

Grand sponsors will award three selected movies with motivational diplomas.

Viewer sympathy will be awarded to the film, that manages to collect the highest amount of positive evaluation on Facebook and youtube.

Rules

1. The participants should register online on the official website of the festival and fill out the application form.

2. The duration of the film should be from 30 seconds up to 15.00 minutes.

3. The film must follow the general movie rules. TV or publicist shows will be excluded from the selection process

3. The film should be accompanied by subtitles in English.

4. The presented films should be accompanied by the following information: author(s) surname, name, author(s) 2 photos (1200 dpi each), a short biography of the author (s) (maximum 30 words), contact details, country and 3 stills from the Contest film (1200 dpi each) – this data will be published in the Festival Catalogue.

5. The theme is free (no violence, no terrorism, no separatism, no religious or ethnic intolerance).

6. One author can present no more than two films.

7. All genres are acceptable except boring.

8. The image must be visible and the voice must be heard.

If additional questions arise, please contact us on the site

On the festival's official Facebook page: DiogenesGeorgia

E-mail: diogenes2020v@gmail.com

Or contact us by phones:

+995 551 23 09 62 – in English

+995 595 55 94 99 – in Georgian

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

• Eldar Shengelaia, Head of the jury - film director
• Mark Zviguski Director of the Museum of Turguеniev in France
• Valeriy Gasparyan, Armenian script writer, journalist.
• Merab Kokochashvili jury VIP member - film director, People's artist of Georgia
• Vladimir Naumov, jury VIP member -- film director, people's artist of the USSR
• Natalya Belokhvostikova, jury VIP member -- Soviet and Russian film actress
• Davit Okitashvili – art-manager. President of the Chamber of Culture of Georgia, President of the Union of Art Workers. 
• Victoria Belopolskaya -- Film critic, program Director of the Artdocfest documentary film festival
• GORAN DUJAKOVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Born in 1966, film director. Author of several short documentary and feature films, and two feature-length documentary films.
• Levan Tutberidze - film director, actor, Tbilisi State Theatre and cinema University associate professor, member of the Supervisory Board of the "Georgian film development center"