FEST International Film Festival 2015 • Won, Audience Award Best Actor Emir Hadzihafizbegovic Les Arcs European Film Festival 2014 • Won, Grand Prize of the Jury Ognjen Svilicic • Nominated, Crystal Arrow Ognjen Svilicic Pula Film Festival 2015 • Won, Golden Arena Best Actor in a Leading Role Emir Hadzihafizbegovic Stockholm Film Festival 2014 • Won, Honorable Mention Best Music • Also for Melbourne and Name Me. • "In addition to this, 3 other films, 'These Are the Rules', 'Melbourne', and 'Name Me' used the starkness of quiet and ambient sounds to push us into a deeper involvement, forcing us to ask, "What would I do in this situation?". We were excited because, instead of music filling up that space of contemplation, we were implicated. In a time when all of us are afforded very little quiet, this was an audacious choice." • Won, Aluminum Horse Best Actress Jasna Zalica • "Defying cliche, without exaggeration. Naked honesty. This actor embodies soulful restraint, leading us to feel for and with this character and her husband. Her work is a powerful testament to how a good story and an unflinching performance bring us close to the experience of an individual in an unfamiliar place and situation." • Won, Aluminum Horse Best Actor Emir Hadzihafizbegovic • "The jury is celebrating the remarkably high calibre of acting in this year's selection, a feast of powerful performances. We want to highlight the work of an actor who artfully draws on life experience, with a strong, compassionate presence, using small gestures acutely, and developing palpable on-screen chemistry with his acting partner." • Won, Aluminum Horse Best Cinematography Crystel Fournier • Also for Girlhood. • "In a time of technological bells and whistles, we are impressed with the elegance of two films in which photography responds to and enhances the story. The jury was torn between vivid depictions of teenage women in Paris and the profundity of a stoic older couple in Croatia. Amazingly, both films were the work of the same brilliant cinematographer." • Nominated, Bronze Horse Best Film Ognjen Svilicic Venice Film Festival 2014 • Won, Venice Horizons Award Best Actor or Actress Emir Hadzihafizbegovic • Nominated, Venice Horizons Award Best Film Ognjen Svilicic Warsaw International Film Festival 2014 • Won, Best Director Ognjen Svilicic • For a profound sensitivity and a masterful consequence in displaying the human struggle against bureaucracy and indifference. • Nominated, Grand Prix Ognjen Svilicic