Ben Rivers
Awards
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Asia Pacific Screen Award [Nominee] (2019)
Achievement in Directing
Krabi, 2562 (2019)
Chicago International Film Festival
Gold Hugo [Nominee] (2020)
Best Documentary Short
Look Then Below (2020)
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
Heterodox Award [Nominee] (2015)
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Cinéma du Réel
Cinéma du Réel Award [Nominee] (2012)
International Competition
Two Years at Sea (2011)
Cinéma du Réel Award [Nominee] (2011)
International Competition
Slow Action (2011)
CPH:DOX
New Vision Award [Nominee] (2014)
Things (2014)
New Vision Award [Winner] (2013)
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
CPH:DOX Award [Winner] (2011)
Two Years at Sea (2011)
Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux (Fifib)
Best Short Film [Nominee] (2016)
The Hunchback (2016)
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Hamburg Short Film Award [Nominee] (2013)
The Creation as We Saw It (2012)
IBAFF International Film Festival
IBAFF Award [Nominee] (2016)
Best Feature Film
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
Best Portuguese Short Film [Winner] (2016)
Best Short Film
The Hunchback (2016)
International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Punto de Vista
Prize for Best Short Film [Winner] (2020)
Now, at Last! (2018)
Jeonju Film Festival
Woosuk Award [Nominee] (2012)
International Competition
Two Years at Sea (2011)
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Silver Eye Award [Nominee] (2013)
Best Feature Documentary
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Leuven International Short Film Festival
European Competition [Winner] (2016)
Best Short Film
The Hunchback (2016)
Locarno International Film Festival
Moving Ahead Award [Nominee] (2019)
Krabi, 2562 (2019)
Golden Leopard [Nominee] (2015)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition [Nominee] (2020)
Look Then Below (2020)
Tiger Award for Short Film [Winner] (2015)
Things (2014)
Tiger Award for Short Film [Nominee] (2011)
Slow Action (2011)
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland
Grand Prix [Nominee] (2016)
Films on Art International Competition
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
Grand Prix [Nominee] (2014)
International Competition
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Torino Film Festival
Prize of the City of Torino [Winner] (2013)
Best International Documentary Film
For the following reason: For its ability to ... More
For the following reason: For its ability to construct a complex link between early cinema and contemporary ethnographic and documentary tendencies, as well as its moltiplicity of (triangular) forms that allow us to simultaneusly womder openly and immerse into tension that build an human experience.
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Venice Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize [Winner] (2011)
Parallel Sections
Two Years at Sea (2011)
Venice Horizons Award [Nominee] (2011)
Best Film
Two Years at Sea (2011)
Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival
Best Experimental Film Award [Nominee] (2020)
Best Experimental Film
Look Then Below (2020)
Great Prize Cidade Vila do Conde [Nominee] (2018)
International Competition
The Rare Event (2018)