Awards
- Winner Best Documentary in the category Art & Power, Master of Art Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020
- Winner Special Jury Award, Cinema on the Bayou, Lafayette, LA, USA, 2020
- Winner Grand Prix Nanook - - Jean Rouch, Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, France, 2019
- Winner Best Documentary, Golden Raven Arctic Film Festival, Anadyr, Russia, 2019
- Winner Best World Cinema Feature Documentary, Kansas City Film Fest International, MO USA, 2019
- Winner Nordic:Dox Award, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Denmark, 2018
- Winner Best Experimental Film Award, Oslo Film Festival, Norway 2018
- Awarded Kulturkongen Best Danish Exhibition for the exhibition Rewriting Histories at Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
- Award for Excellence in Film and Conceptual Art, Anamabra Book and Creativity Network, Awka, Nigeria 2014
- Winner 1st prize Fokus Videokunst Festival, Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011
- Awarded Hans Jensen prize, The Danish Collaboration of Worker Unions (LO), Denmark, 2000
- Honorary mention at Festival Der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria, 1999
Nominations
- Nominee Spirit of Freedom Award, Bahamas International Film Festival, Bahamas, 2019
- Nominee best feature film, Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival (FIDBA), Argentina, 2019
- Nominee for RAI/Basil Wright Award, RAI Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2019
- Nominee for Political Film Award, Hamburg Film Festival, Germany, 2018
- Nominee for Documentaire Extraordinaire, Bergen International Film Festival, Norway 2018
- Nominee New Vision Competition, CPH:DOX, Denmark, 2012