Awards

• Golden Muhr Award for the best Arab Short Film, Dubai International Film Festival 2008 
• Cinecinécourt Award, Mediterranean Film Festival Montpellier, 2008 
• Best Shortfilm, Tribeca International Film Festival, 2009 
  Jury Statement: We ultimately chose the winner for its poetic, truthful and unsentimental portrait of an exile’s return home to deal with his father’s death 20 years earlier. The director, Carlos Chahine, portrays the absurdities and contradictions of how we deal with grief through humor, freshness and subtlety.
• Special Mention, Award of the Young Audience, Rencontres cinématographiques de Dignes les Bains, 2009 
• Nominated for the “Jean Vigo” Prize 2009 
• Best Short Film, Saint Paul Les Trois Chateaux, 2009
• Best Short Film, International Euro Arab Film Festival AMAL, 2009
• Best Traditional Short Film, Open Cinema, Sankt Petersburg 2010