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 |
Hamptons International Film Festival, New York Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Arkansas Vienna International Film Festival, Austria | October 2015 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
