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Eric Esser

24 wins & 48 nominations

Great Lakes Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Best Documentary Short
    • Documentary Short
    • The Angel of History
  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Festival Prize
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

Festival of Nations, Austria

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Lenzing Award in Gold
    • Documentary
    • The Angel of History

Portobello Film and Video Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Best International Short Film
    • International Short Film Competition
    • The Angel of History
  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Nominee German Films
    • Best Short Film
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente
  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2014 Nominee German Films
    • Best Short Film
    • Chaja & Mimi

Regensburg Short Film Week

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Best German Short Film
    • Best Film
    • The Angel of History

Cosmic Zoom Film Festival

  • 2005 Winner Cosmic Zoom Award
    • Best Idea (Bedste idé)
    • November

Accolade Competition

  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Award of Merit
    • Feature Documentary
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

High Falls Film Festival

  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

Berlin Black International Cinema Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Festival Prize
    • Best Film
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner Festival Prize
    • Best film/video by a german filmmaker or a filmmaker residing in germany
    • The Angel of History
  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2014 Nominee Festival Prize
    • Best Documentary
    • Chaja & Mimi

Utah Arts Festival (Fear No Film)

  • 2014 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Fear No Film
    • November
  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2014 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Fear No Film
    • Chaja & Mimi

Canada International Film Festival

  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Rising Star Award
    • Student Film Competition
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

Best Shorts Competition

  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2014 Winner Award of Merit
    • Short Documentary
    • Chaja & Mimi

Delhi Shorts International Film Festival, IN

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner Festival Prize
    • Best Documentary (Student )
    • The Angel of History

Snake Alley Festival of Film, US

  • 2014 Nominee Director's Award
    • Best Foreign Short
    • November

Independent Days

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Roncalli Forum Film Award
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Roncalli Forum Film Award
    • The Angel of History
  • 2007 Nominee No-Budget-Contest
    • Best Film
    • November
  • 2007 Nominee No-Budget-Contest
    • Best Film
    • Buns

California Film Awards

  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Silver Award
    • Documentary Film Competition
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

Iquique International Film Festival

  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2014 Nominee Festival Prize
    • Cortometraje Documental Internacional
    • Chaja & Mimi

Achtung Berlin

  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2010 Nominee New Berlin Film Award
    • Best Short Film
    • Chaja & Mimi

Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Short Film
    • The Angel of History

Karlsruhe Independent Days

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Roncalli-Forum Filmpreis
    • The Angel of History

International Independent Film Awards

  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Honorable Mention
    • Documentary Feature
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

Oregon International Film Awards, US

  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Festival Award
    • Best Documentary Feature
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

International Low and No Budget Film Sharing Film Festival, DE

  • Dawn of the Dorks (2006)
    2008 Nominee Finalist Trophy
    • Dawn of the Dorks
  • 2007 Nominee Finalist Trophy
    • November

Brainwash Movie Festival

  • 2014 2nd Place Festival Prize
    • Grand Prize
    • November

IndieFEST Film Awards

  • Dawn of the Dorks (2006)
    2019 Winner Award of Recognition
    • Film Short (Student)
    • Dawn of the Dorks

Ethnocineca

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2021 Nominee ESSA - Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award
    • Best Student Short
    • The Angel of History

Kraljevski Filmski Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Short
    • The Angel of History

Near Nazareth Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Shortfilm
    • The Angel of History
  • Colja Krugmann, Matthias Pilz, Jan-Paul Gauly, Eric Esser, Albrecht von Grünhagen, Judith Peter, and Evelyn Rack in Rotation (2018)
    2020 Nominee Jury Award
    • Best Feature Documentary
    • Rotation
  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2016 Winner Jury Award
    • Student Debut
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente
  • Chaja & Mimi (2009)
    2016 Nominee Jury Award
    • Student Debut
    • Chaja & Mimi

Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner Jury Award - Student
    • Best Documentary
    • The Angel of History

Short of the Year

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner Short of the Year
    • Short of the Year - Autumn
    • The Angel of History

Sydney Underground Film Festival

  • 2014 Nominee Audience Choice Award
    • Ozploit!
    • November
  • 2014 Winner Dead Oscar
    • Best Scatological Philosophy Award
    • November

Sole Luna Doc Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Best Documentary
    • Best Film
    • The Angel of History

Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee David Camera Award
    • Best Short Documentary
    • The Angel of History

Blicke. Filmfestival des Ruhrgebiets

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Award
    • aus-blicke-Preis
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Award
    • Querdenkerpreis
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Audience Award
    • The Angel of History

Larissa International Film Festival - Artfools

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2021 Winner Best International Short
    • International Short Film Competition
    • The Angel of History

Festival International Signes de Nuit

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2019 Nominee Main Award
    • Cinema in Transgression
    • The Angel of History

Watersprite Cambridge International Student Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Documentary
    • The Angel of History

Festival Internacional de Cine Universitario KINOKI

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Experimental Shortfilm
    • The Angel of History

Flensburg Short Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2019 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Non Fiction
    • The Angel of History

Lucania Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2019 Nominee International Competition Award
    • Short Documentary
    • The Angel of History

The People's Film Festival, London

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Festival Award
    • Best Documentary Short Film
    • The Angel of History

Der phantastische Trashfilm

  • Dawn of the Dorks (2006)
    2007 2nd Place Audience Award
    • Best short
    • Dawn of the Dorks

Kunstgriff Rolle

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 2nd Place Jury Prize
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner Audience Award
    • The Angel of History

Festival Mundial de Cine Extremo de Veracruz

  • Colja Krugmann, Matthias Pilz, Jan-Paul Gauly, Eric Esser, Albrecht von Grünhagen, Judith Peter, and Evelyn Rack in Rotation (2018)
    2019 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Largometraje Documental
    • Rotation
  • Non ci è stato regalato niente (2014)
    2014 Winner Lorenzo-Arduengo Press Award
    • Non ci è stato regalato niente

Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Short Film
    • The Angel of History

ISFF Detmold Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Festival Award
    • Best International Short Film
    • The Angel of History

BangkokThai International Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Short Film
    • The Angel of History
  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary Short Film
    • The Angel of History

Short Movie Club Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Nominee Award
    • Short Film
    • The Angel of History

Festival Cinematográfico de Mérida (FECIME)

  • Colja Krugmann, Matthias Pilz, Jan-Paul Gauly, Eric Esser, Albrecht von Grünhagen, Judith Peter, and Evelyn Rack in Rotation (2018)
    2020 Nominee FECIME Award
    • Documentary
    • Rotation

Reale Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2020 Winner August Award
    • Best Screenplay
    • The Angel of History

accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival

  • The Angel of History (2019)
    2021 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best Documentary
    • The Angel of History

International Festival of Short Films “I Corti sul lettino – Cinema e Psicoanalisi¨

  • 2013 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Short Film
    • November
  • 2013 Winner Jury Award
    • Best Foreign Short
    • November

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