Awards
Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel
- Basic Trust International Human Rights Film Festival Ramallah-Tel Aviv 2000: audience award
War Photographer
- Academy Awards 2002: Nominated Best Documentary Feature
- Gregory Foster Peabody Award 2003
- Emmy 2004: Nomination Award for Cinematographer Peter Indergand
- Adolf Grimme Award 2003: Special Prize of the Ministry for Development, Culture and Sports
- Durban International Film Festival 2002: Best documentary
- Cologne Conference 2002: Winner Phoenix Price Best non-fiction
- Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Independent Film Festival 2002: audience award
- Viewpoint film festival Gent 2002: winner
- European Documentary Film Festival Oslo 2003: Eurodok award
- Dokufest Pizren Dokumentary and Short Film Festival 2003: winner
- British Documentary Awards 2002: Shortlisted The Grierson Award Category International Documentary
- Swiss Film Prize 2002: Nominated best documentary
- Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival: winner
- Sichuan TV Festival: Gold Panda Award Best Long Documentary
- Mountain Film Festival Telluride (Colorado) 2003: Voice of Humanity Award
The Giant Buddhas
- Dok Leipzig 2005: Silver Dove
- Dokufest Pizren Dokumentary and Short Film Festival 2006: winner ex aequo
- Trento Film Festival 2006: Silver Gentian
- Tahoe/Reno International Film Festival 2006: Best of the Fest - Documentary
- Sundance Film Festival 2006: Nominated Grand Jury Prize feature length documentaries
- Swiss Film Prize 2006: Nominated best documentary
Space Tourists
- The Documentary Channel 2012: Jury prize «Best of Doc»
- Cervino Cine Mountain International Mountain Film Festival 2011: Miglior Grand Prix dei Festival 2011
- Beldocs Belgrad 2010: Best Photography Award
- Berg- und Abenteuerfilmfestival Graz 2010: Grand Prix Documentary Feature
- Regio Fun Film Festival Katowice 2010: 2nd Award Documentary Film Competition
- European Documentary Film Festival Oslo 2010: Eurodok Award
- Sundance Film Festival Park City 2010: World Cinema Directing Award
- EBS International Documentary Film Festival Seoul 2010: Special jury prize
- Swiss Film Prize 2010: Nominated best documentary
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