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Awards

Emma Benestan

12 wins & 39 nominations

Angers European First Film Festival

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Nominee Grand Jury Prize
    • Best French Short-Film
    • Facing the Beast

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra in Animale (2024)
    2024 Nominee Official Fantàstic Competition
    • Best Motion Picture
    • Animale

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2021 Nominee Best Short Film
    • National Competition
    • Facing the Beast
  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2017 Winner Mention spéciale du Jury Presse Télérama
    • Taste of Love

Heartland Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Audience Award
    • Narrative Feature
    • Fragile

Leipzig DOK Festival

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Documentary
    • Facing the Beast

Mons International Festival of Love Films

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Young European Jury Award
    • Out of competition
    • Fragile

Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Nominee Audience Award - Short Film
    • Short Film
    • Facing the Beast

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra in Animale (2024)
    2024 Nominee Narcisse Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Animale

Rhode Island International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Best Feature
    • Best Picture
    • Fragile

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee George Sidney Independent Film Competition - Special Jury Prize
    • Best Feature
    • Fragile

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Best International Feature
    • Best film
    • Fragile

Stony Brook Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Best Feature
    • Jury Award
    • Fragile

Valladolid International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Youth Jury Award
    • Young Seminci
    • Fragile
  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Winner Best European Short Film
    • Best Film
    • Facing the Beast

Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Fragile

Sarasota Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Audience Award
    • Best Narrative Feature Film
    • Fragile

Brive Mid-Length Film Meeting

  • 2013 Nominee Grand Prix
    • European Competition
    • Toucher l'horizon

Aix-en-Provence International Short Film Festival

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Audience Award
    • International Competition
    • Taste of Love

Lille International Short Film Festival

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Nominee First Prize
    • Best Short Film
    • Facing the Beast

Love is Folly International Film Festival, Bulgaria

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Golden Aphrodite
    • Best Film
    • Fragile

Bourg en Bresse Youth Animation Festival

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2017 Winner Audience Award
    • Audience Award
    • Taste of Love

Winterthur International Short Film Festival

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Audience Award
    • Short Film
    • Taste of Love

Brussels Short Film Festival

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Audience Award
    • International Competition
    • Taste of Love

Maui Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Audience Award
    • Narrative Feature World Cinema
    • Fragile

Port Townsend Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Best Narrative Feature
    • Feature Film
    • Fragile

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee World Cinema
    • Best Feature Narrative
    • Fragile

Magritte Awards, Belgium

  • Oulaya Amamra in Animale (2024)
    2025 Nominee Magritte Award
    • Best Foreign Film in Co-Production (Meilleur film étranger en coproduction)
    • Animale
    Shared with: Cassandre Warnauts · Jean-Yves Roubin

Festival international du cinema francophone en Acadie

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Winner FICFA Award
    • Best Short Film
    • Facing the Beast

Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (FEFFS)

  • Oulaya Amamra in Animale (2024)
    2024 Nominee Octopus d'Or
    • Best International Feature Film
    • Animale
  • Oulaya Amamra in Animale (2024)
    2024 Nominee Melies D'Argent
    • Best European Fantastic Feature Film
    • Animale

Fünf Seen Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Young Cinema Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Fragile

Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Andrzej Wajda Cracow Film Award
    • Main Feature Film Competition "Making Way" - Best First or Second Film
    • Fragile

Fayetteville Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best International Film
    • Fragile

Contis International Film Festival

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Winner France 3 Award
    • Short Film
    • Taste of Love
  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Audience Award
    • European Short Film Competition
    • Taste of Love

Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux (Fifib)

  • L'amour du risque (2019)
    2019 Nominee Grand Prize of the Jury
    • Contrebande
    • L'amour du risque

Sguardi Altrove Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Winner Premio Giovani
    • WIFTMI Award
    • Fragile

Off-Courts Trouville

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Prix du Jury
    • Best Film
    • Taste of Love

Festival Européen du Film Court de Nice

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Winner Jury Prize
    • Short Film
    • Facing the Beast

Festival Silhouette

  • Facing the Beast (2018)
    2018 Nominee Jury Prize
    • Semi-Finalist
    • Facing the Beast
  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Audience Award
    • Short Film
    • Taste of Love

KINOLUB International Film Festival for Children and Youth

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Grand Pix
    • Best Film
    • Fragile

Beirut International Women Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Golden Tanit of Beirut
    • Best International Feature Fiction
    • Fragile

Les 12 Courts de Minuit

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2017 Winner Jury Prize
    • Best Short Film
    • Taste of Love

Chacun Son Court

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2017 Winner Jury Special Mention
    • Short Film
    • Taste of Love

Screenwave International Film Festival

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee SWIFF Audience Award
    • Audience Award
    • Fragile

Un poing c'est court - Festival du Film Court Francophone

  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Nominee Best Film
    • Short Film
    • Taste of Love
  • French Touch: Between Men (2019)
    2016 Winner Collegiens Award
    • Short Film
    • Taste of Love

Vues d'en face - Festival International du Film LGBT+ de Grenoble

  • Alexander Ohakas, Maria E. Pettersson, and Otto Hargne in Välkommen Ut (2016)
    2018 Winner Meilleurs Courts Métrages
    • Best Short Film
    • Välkommen Ut
    • Taste of Love
    Shared with: Joakim S. Hammond

Buzz IFF

  • Oulaya Amamra and Yasin Houicha in Fragile (2021)
    2022 Nominee Festival Award
    • Best Feature Film
    • Fragile

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