2008 58th International Film Festival Berlin – Panorama 12th International Film Festival Sofia, Bulgaria – Best Director Award goEast| 8th Festival of  Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden, Germany – Best Director Award 5th Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Austria – Audience Award 1st Banjaluka International Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Opening Film 2nd Cinema City – Film and New Media Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia – Best Serbian Film Edinburgh International Film Festival, United Kingdom 37th Film Festival Sopot, Serbia – Opening Film, Best Screenplay Award 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic 15th European Film Festival Palic, Serbia – Closing Film 32nd Film Screenplay Festival Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia – Opening Film, Best Screenplay Award 48th Actors Film Festival, Nis, Serbia 2007 – Award for Main Actor 21st Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland 22nd International Directors Film Festival, Herceg Novi, Montenegro – Bronze Award for Best Director 35th Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium 2nd Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania - Opening Film 23rd Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland 24th Haifa International Film Festival, Israel 1st Leskovac International Film Festival LIFFE, Serbia 2nd International Film Festival “2morrow”, Moscow, Russia 6th Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia 11th Slovenian Film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia – Kodak Award for best Cinematographer 38th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraina Arras International Film Festival, France Starz Denver Film Festival, USA 2nd Bursa Silkroad International Film Festival – Best Director Award 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia 9th Tbilissi International Film Festival, Georgia