2005 54th Berlinale Forum, Germany, Opening film 33rd Belgrade International Film Festival FEST, Serbia 9th International Film Festival Sofia, Bulgaria The Bitter Cup Award 2005 Grand Prix "Silver Seagull" 2005 Filmtage Augsburg, Germany 7th Skopje Film Festival, FYRO Macedonia goEast| 5th Festival of  Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden, Germany 2nd Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Austria 11th Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina Edinburgh International Film Festival, United Kingdom 20th Umea Film Festival, Sweden Europäische Kurzfilm Biennale Ludwigsburg 7th Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brasil 7th Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema, France Tage des Deutschen Films, Tiflis, Germany 20th Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück, Germany 10th Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea 20th Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland Filmfestival Münster, Germany 16th Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia 11th Festival on Wheels, Ankara, Turkey 12. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Germany 3rd Northern Lights Film Festival, Newcastle, United Kingdom 46th International Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece Osteuropäische Filmtage Göttingen, Germany 9th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia 2006 21st Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina – Official Competition