(2015, feature, 35mm, color, 107 minutes)
First feature
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.
While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
2015 - New York National Board of Review (NBR):
Best Foreign Film Award
2015 - New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC):
Best First Film Award
2015 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA):
Best Foreign-Language Film Award
2015 - Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA):
Best Foreign-Language Film Award
2015 - New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO):
Best Foreign-Language Film Award
2015 - Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA):
Best Foreign-Language Film Award
2015 - San Francisco Film Critics Circle (SFFCC):
Best Foreign Language Picture Award
2015 - The Village Voice Film Critcs Poll:
Best Actor Award to Géza Röhrig
2015 - Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA):
Best Foreign-Language Film Award
2015 - Indiana Film Journalists Association:
Best Foreign Language Film
2015 - Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association:
Best Foreign Language Film
2015 - Southeastern Film Critics Association:
Best Foreign Language Film
2015 - The Guardian:
Best Film Released in the US in 2015
2016 - Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch Award to László Nemes
2016 - Critics’ Choice Awards (CCA):
Best Foreign Language Film
2016 - American Society of Cinematographers (ASC):
Spotlight Award to Mátyás Erdély
2016 - Variety’s 10 Europeans to Watch Award to Géza Röhrig
2016 - Satellite Awards of the International Press Academy:
Best International Film
2016 - Independent Spirit Awards:
Best International Film
2016 - Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE):
Best Foreign Language Film Golden Reel Award to Tamás Zányi
2016 - Golden Globes (HFPA)
Best Foreign Language Motion Picture
2016 - David di Donatello Awards (Accademia del Cinema Italiano)
Best European Film
2017 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
Best Foreign Language Film
2017 - The Critics' Circle (UK)
Director of the Year
2017 - Swedish Film Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
2017 - Romanian Film Awards – Premiile Gopo
Best Foreign Film
2015 - Los Angeles Hungarian Film Festival
Alex Friedman Humanitarian Award
2015 - Budapest, Aranyszem Cinematographer Festival
Cinematographer of the Year Award to Mátyás Erdély
2016 - Hungarian Film Critics’ Prizes
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Awards
Bydgoszcz Camerimage - 2015
Bronze Frog Award Mátyás Erdély
London UK Jewish Film Festival - 2015
Best Debut Feature Award
Zagreb Film Festival - 2015
Main Prize
Santa Barbara International Film Festival - 2016
Virtuoso Award Géza Röhrig
American Film Academy - 2016
Best Foreign Language Film
Medias Central European Film Festival - 2016
Main Prize
Cannes International Film Festival - 2015
Grand Prix
FIPRESCI Prize
Francois Chalais Prize
Vulcain Award for Best Sound Tamás Zányi
Sarajevo Film Festival - 2015
Special Jury Prize
Luxembourg CinÉast - 2015
Critics Prize
Bitola International Film Camera Festival Manaki Brothers - 2015
Golden Camera 300 Main Prize Mátyás Erdély
Chalons-en-Champagne War on Screen - 2015
Best Director Laszlo Nemes
Stockholm International Film Festival - 2015
Best Director Award Laszlo Nemes
Hungarian Film Awards - 2016
Special Award
Festivals
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - 2015
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival - 2015
Leeds International Film Festival - 2015
Antalya Golden Orange IFF - 2015
Palm Springs International Film Festival - 2016
Sofia International Film Festival - 2016
Cluj-Napoca Transilvania - 2016
Wroclaw New Horizons IFF - 2016
Leiden International Film Festival - 2015
La Rochelle International Film Festival - 2015
Telluride Film Festival - 2015
Toronto International Film Festival - 2015
Special Presentation
New York Film Festival - 2015
San Sebastian International Film Festival - 2015
Pearls
London Film Festival - 2015
(in competition)
Ghent Flanders International Film Festival - 2015
(in competition)
Aspen Film Fest - 2015
Vancouver International Film Festival - 2015
Odessa International Film Festival - 2015
(in competition)
Hamburg Filmfest - 2015
Chicago International Film Festival - 2015
Charlottesville Virginia Film Festival - 2015
Mill Valley Film Festival - 2015
Zurich Film Festival - 2017