Houda Benyamina Biography

Awards

• 2011FIPRESCI Prize-Best Short: winner
• 2011Muhr Arab Award-Short: winner
• 2014Festival Prize-Best Feature Film: winner
• 2016Audience Award-New Auteurs: winner
• 2016Audience Award-Breakthrough: winner
• 2016Sutherland Award-First Feature Competition: nominated
• 2016Golden Camera-: winner
• 2016Queer Palm-: nominated
• 2016SACD Prize - Special Mention-Director's Fortnight: winner
• 2016FIPRESCI Prize-Prix de la Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique: winner
• 2016Tanit d'Or-Feature Film: nominated
• 2016Golden Starfish Award-Narrative Feature: nominated
• 2016CineVision Award-Best Film By An Emerging Director: winner
• 2016Discovery Award-Best Film: nominated
• 2017Black Reel-Outstanding Foreign Language Film: nominated
• 2017César-Best Original Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original): nominated
• 2017César-Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur): nominated
• 2017César-Best First Film (Meilleur premier film): winner
• 2017César-Best Film (Meilleur film): nominated
• 2017Globe de Cristal-Best Film (Meilleur film): nominated
• 2017Heike Hurst Award-Best First Film (Meilleur premier film): winner
• 2020A.C.S. Award-Best Direction: winner