As we anticipate a month of kudos from Full Frame, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Tribeca and elsewhere, academies and festivals around the world--from Denmark, Germany, Romania, Austria and Greece--were honoring their own. The Montreal-based International Festival of Films on Art gave out a bevy of honors, while Zhao Liang's Petition continued its impressive international festival run, garnering the top doc award at Tiburon.

1)      Awards

Danish Film Critics Association Bodil Awards

Best Foreign Film: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)
Best Documentary Film:  The Invisible Cell (Dir.: Anders Riis-Hansen)

German Film Academy Lola Awards--Nominees
Best Documentary:
The Woman with the Five Elephants (Dir.: Vadim Jendreyko)
The Heart Of Jenin (Dirs.: Marcus Vetter, Leon Geller)

Gopo Awards (Romania)
Best Documentary: The World According to Ion B. (Dir.: Alexander's Nanau)

Hellenic Film Academy Awards (Greece)--Nominees
Best Feature Film--Documentary
There Was No Other Way  (Dir.: Stavros Psillakis)
National Garden (Dir.: Maria Yenekou)
Xenes se Xeni Hora  (Dir.: Dimitris Panayotatos)

Previously Reported: Peabody Awards

2)      Festivals

Boston Underground Film Festival
Best of Fest Documentary: It Came from Kuchar (Dir.: Jennifer M. Kroot)

Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film
Best Documentary: Hana, dul, sed....(Dir.: Birgitte Weich, Karin Macher)
Youth Jury Prize for Best Young Talent Film: Kick-Off (Dir.: Huseyin Tabak)
Audience Award: Kick-Off (Dir.: Huseyin Tabak)
Diocese Graz-Seckau Prize for Best Documentary or Short Film: Die Kinder vom Friedrichshof (Dir.: Juliane Grossheim)
Austrian Editors Association Award for Best Documentary: Jobcenter (Dir.: Michael Palm)
Austrian Association of Cinematographers Prize for Best Documentary: Toto (Dir.: Peter Schreiner)

International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal)
Grand Prize: Archipels Nitrate (Dir.: Claudio Pazienza; Belgium)
Jury Award: The New Rijksmuseum (Dir.: Oeke Hoogendijk; The Netherlands)
Award for Best Educational Film: Milton Glaser: To Inform And Delight  (Dir.: Wendy Keys; United States)
Award for Creativity: Hubert Vos Et L'impératrice  (Dir.: Micaela van Rijckevorsel; The Netherlands)
Award for Best Canadian Film:  Montréal Symphonie (Dir.: Bettina Ehrhardt; Canada, Germany)
Award for Best Essay: David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (Dir.: Bruno Wollheim; United Kingdom)
Award for Best Portrait: Ya Sharr Mout (Dir.: Sabine Gisiger; Switzerland)
Award for Best Reportage: Expansive Grounds  (Dir.: Gerburg Rohde-Dahl; Germany)
Award for Best Film for Television: Boris Vian, La Vie Jazz (Dir.: Philippe Kohly; France)
ARTV Springboard to the World Award: Bull's Eye, Un Peintre À L'affût (Dir.: Bruno Boulianne; Canada)
ARTV People's Choice Award: Il Était Deux Fois Un Jardin (Dir.: Philippe Baylaucq; Canada)

International Student Film Festival (Slovakia)
Best Documentary Film Award:  Flightless Birds (Dir.: Michal Dawidowicz)

Tiburon International Film Festival      
Best Documentary: Petition (Dir.: Zhao Liang)