Congratulations to the filmmakers whose films won the 2025 Ophir Award!
(Click on the film titles to read more)
Best Short Documentary Film
Nothing Special | Efrat Berger, IKKI Films
Best Short Fiction Film
Dalia’s Tea Casts a Shadow on Mount Fuji | Oren Gerner, Lihi Nachmani
Best Short Animation Film
A Bird’s Wish | Gan De Lange, Kobi Mizrahi
Warm congratulations to Elkie Leonie Hershberg (who’s missing in the picture), Tom Kouris, Hani Dombe – what a winning team! ❤️
Following the win, they’ll be flying to the Animasyros Festival with the support of Hive Studio, and Sunday is now automatically shortlisted for next year’s Ophir Awards.
Good luck! 🥂
The Makor Foundation supports the independent Israeli
production of documentary films, narrative shorts,
animated shorts, and works created with new
technologies for current and developing medias.
The Foundation provides its support without bias and
irrespective of religious affiliation, race, gender, and
ethnic background, with the goal of engaging
the filmmakers’ full abilities to produce innovative,
ground-breaking, thought-provoking, and
consciousness-raising cinema.