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.

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Claude Lanzmann attends the 88th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

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, KosovoAugust 2015
Camden International Film Festival, MaineSeptember 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, ViennaDecember 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 CityFebruary 2016
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, GreeceMarch 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, ItalyJune 2016
Pärnu International Film Festival, EstoniaJuly 2016
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea (Asian Premiere)September 2016
Lincoln Film Festival, IllinoisOctober 2016
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, PolandNovember 2016
The National Library of Israel’s Docu.Text Film Festival, JerusalemAugust 2018
DOK.fest München, Munich, GermanyMay 2019
Special Presentation: BPI Centre Pompidou Claude Lanzmann Retrospective, ParisDecember 2023