Awards History
Academy Award® Nominee: Best Documentary Short Subject
88th Academy Awards, 28 February 2016. Los Angeles, California.
Grierson Award Nominee: Best Newcomer Documentary
44th British Grierson Documentary Awards, 7 November 2016. London, England.
Canadian Screen Awards Nominee:
– Best Direction in a Documentary Program
– Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series
– Best Original Music for a Non-Fiction Program or Series
– Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research
2017 Canadian Screen Awards, 7 March 2017. Toronto, Canada.
International Documentary Association Awards Nominee: Best Short Film
31st IDA Documentary Awards, 5 December 2015. Los Angeles, California.
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival Winner: Best Short Documentary
Awarded to director Adam Benzine. 14th Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, 27 November 2016. Warsaw, Poland.
Cinema Eye Honors Nominee: Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
9th Cinema Eye Honors ceremony, 13 January 2016. New York City, New York.
Canadian Cinema Editors Awards Winner: Best Editing in Documentary – Short Form
Awarded to editor Tiffany Beaudin. 2016 Canadian Cinema Editors Awards, 2 June 2016. Toronto, Canada.
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Winner: Audience Award for Best International Short Documentary
Awarded to director Adam Benzine. 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 20 March 2016. Thessaloniki, Greece.
Hot Docs Honourable Mention: Best Mid-Length Documentary Competition
22nd Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, 1 May 2015. Toronto, Canada.
Banff Rockie Awards Nominee:
– Best History & Biography Program
– Best Francophone Program
38th Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards, 12 June 2017. Banff, Canada.
Los Angeles Italia Film Festival Winner: Best Short Film of the Year
Awarded to director Adam Benzine. 11th Los Angeles Italia Film Festival, 21 February 2016. Los Angeles, California
Film Festival History
| Hot Docs, Toronto (World Premiere) | April 2015 |
| Sheffield Doc/Fest, England (European Premiere) | June 2015 |
| San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, California (U.S. Premiere) | July 2015 |
| DokuFest, Kosovo | August 2015 |
| Camden International Film Festival, Maine | September 2015 |
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Hamptons International Film Festival, New York Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Arkansas Vienna International Film Festival, Austria | October 2015 |
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New British Film Festival, Moscow Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, Canada UK Jewish Film Festival, London DOC NYC, New York City IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), Holland (Official Selection: Best of Fests) | November 2015 |
| This Human World, Vienna | December 2015 |
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Irvine International Film Festival, California Special Presentation: Museum of Tolerance, California FIPA (International Festival of Audiovisual Programs), Biarritz, France U.S. Theatrical Release: The Oscar®-nominated Short Films 2016 | January 2016 |
| Special Presentation: Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City | February 2016 |
| Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece | March 2016 |
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Special Presentation: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC Festival of Tolerance: Zagreb Jewish Film Festival, Croatia It’s All True Film Festival, Brazil (South American Premiere) | April 2016 |
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Jewish International Film Festival Australia, Melbourne/Sydney Doc Edge Film Festival, New Zealand | May 2016 |
| Biografilm Festival, Bologna, Italy | June 2016 |
| Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia | July 2016 |
| DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea (Asian Premiere) | September 2016 |
| Lincoln Film Festival, Illinois | October 2016 |
| Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, Poland | November 2016 |
| The National Library of Israel’s Docu.Text Film Festival, Jerusalem | August 2018 |
| DOK.fest München, Munich, Germany | May 2019 |
| Special Presentation: BPI Centre Pompidou Claude Lanzmann Retrospective, Paris | December 2023 |
