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Awards

Mohamed Al Daradji

20 wins & 13 nominations

Berlin International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Peace Film Award
    • Son of Babylon
  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Amnesty International Film Prize
    • Son of Babylon
    Tied with Waste Land (2010).
  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Peace Film Award
    • Best Film
    • Son of Babylon
    Shared with: Isabelle Stead

Cairo International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Best Screenplay
    • Arabic Film Compitition
    • Son of Babylon
    Joint winners
    Shared with: Jennifer Norridge
  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Nominee Best Arabic Film
    • Son of Babylon

Edinburgh International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Nominee Best New International Feature
    • Son of Babylon

Hawaii International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Halekulani Golden Orchid Award
    • Narrative Feature
    • Son of Babylon

Istanbul Film Festival

  • Ahlaam (2006)
    2006 Winner Special Prize of the Jury
    • Ahlaam

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Netpac Award
    • Son of Babylon
    Film depicts human suffering not only in Iraq but in any other war, with a sensitively controlled camera.

Locarno Film Festival

  • Irkalla: Gilgamesh's Dream (2025)
    2025 Nominee Audience Award
    • Prix du public UBS
    • Irkalla: Gilgamesh's Dream

International Film Festival Rotterdam

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2011 Winner Rotterdam Award
    • Works Award
    • Son of Babylon

Seattle International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Emerging Masters Showcase Award
    • Son of Babylon

Sundance Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • World Cinema - Dramatic
    • Son of Babylon

Warsaw International Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Nominee Competition 1-2 Award
    • Son of Babylon

Fajr Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2011 Nominee Special Jury Award
    • International Competition
    • Son of Babylon

Leeds International Film Festival

  • Ahlaam (2006)
    2006 Winner Golden Owl Award
    • Ahlaam

Brooklyn International Film Festival

  • Ahlaam (2006)
    2006 Winner Spirit Award
    • Best Feature
    • Ahlaam

Tribeca Film Festival

  • 2008 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • War, Love, God & Madness

Raindance Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best International Feature
    • Son of Babylon

CPH:DOX

  • In My Mother's Arms (2011)
    2011 Nominee Amnesty Award
    • In My Mother's Arms
    Shared with: Atia Jbara Al-Darraji

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

  • In the Sands of Babylon (2013)
    2014 Nominee Grand Prize
    • In the Sands of Babylon
  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2011 Winner Special Jury Prize
    • FICC Jury Prize
    • Son of Babylon
    Shared with: Isabelle Stead · Atia Jbara Al-Darraji

Dubai International Film Festival

  • 2013 Nominee Muhr Arab Award
    • Best Film - Short
    • Children of War
    Shared with: Atia Jbara Al-Darraji
  • Children of God (2013)
    2013 Nominee Muhr Arab Award
    • Best Film - Short
    • Children of God
    Shared with: Atia Jbara Al-Darraji

Cinema for Peace Awards

  • In the Sands of Babylon (2013)
    2015 Nominee Cinema for Peace Award
    • Cinema for Peace Award for Justice
    • In the Sands of Babylon

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

  • In My Mother's Arms (2011)
    2012 Winner Asia Pacific Screen Award
    • Best Documentary Feature Film
    • In My Mother's Arms
    Shared with: Isabelle Stead · Atia Jbara Al-Darraji

Abu Dhabi Film Festival

  • In the Sands of Babylon (2013)
    2013 Nominee Black Pearl Award
    • Best Narrative Feature
    • In the Sands of Babylon
  • In the Sands of Babylon (2013)
    2013 Winner Narrative Competition
    • Best Film from the Arab World
    • In the Sands of Babylon

Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival

  • Ahlaam (2006)
    2006 Winner Geber Award
    • Ahlaam

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2011 Winner Audience Award
    • Son of Babylon

Seville European Film Festival

  • Son of Babylon (2009)
    2010 Winner Golden Giraldillo
    • Best Film
    • Son of Babylon

Black Movie Film Festival

  • 2012 Winner Young Adults Jury Award
    • Iraq: War, Love, God & Madness

Festival International du Film pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse de Sousse

  • Irkalla: Gilgamesh's Dream (2025)
    2026 Winner Golden Pearl
    • Best Feature Fiction Film
    • Irkalla: Gilgamesh's Dream

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