Megacities

Locarno (51th International Filmfestival Locarno - Piazza Grande); Toronto (23th Toronto International Film Festival); San Sebastian (46th Festival International de Cine Donostia), Sao Paolo (22nd Mostra Internacional de Cinema); Amsterdam (11th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam); 22nd Sundance Filmfestivl, Paris - (21th Cinéma du Réel), Busan (3rd Busan International Film Festival), Vienna (39. Viennale), Duisburg (22. Filmwoche Duisburg), Saarbrücken (20. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis), Gent (Documentary Film Festival 1999), Santa Barbara (14th International Film Festival Santa Barbara), Alès (Festival du film jeune 1999), Thessaloniki (20th International Film Festival Thessaloniki), Hongkong (23rd International Film Festival Hongkong), Buenos Aires (2nd Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival), Minneapolis (17th International Film Festival Minneapolis/St.Paul), Barcelona (Barcelona Documentary Festival 1999), Philadelphia (18th Documentary & Fiction Festival), San Francisco (42rd San Francisco International Film Festival), Cannes (52th Festival de Cannes), Sydney (46th International Film Festival Sydney), Karlovy Vary (35th International Film Festival Karlovy Vary), Moscow (25th Interfest Moscow), Melbourne (47th Melbourne International Film Festival), Copenhagen (Copenhagen Film Festival 1999), Helsinki (11th Helsinki International Film Festival), Aarhus (2nd Aarhus International Film Festival), Vancouver (18th Vancouver International Film Festival), Montreal (23rd World Film Festival), Bratislava (Bratislava Tourfilm Festival 2000), Canberra (4th Canberra Multicultural Festival), Stockholm (2nd Tempo Documentary Film Festival), Copenhagen (4th European Documentary Network), Pärnu (14th Pärnu Doc Film Festival), Riga (10th International Film Forum Riga), Taiwan (Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2000), Singapore (European Film Week 2000), Torino (3rd CinemAmbiente), Jihlava (14th Jihlava Documentary Film Festival), London (Reel Time Film Festival 2000), Istanbul (Türsak International Meeting of Cinema 2000), Washington (8th Environmental Film Festival), Ljubljana (2nd Dokumentarec Film Festival), Sierra de Estrela (Festival Internacional de Cinema de Ambiente 2000), Bilbao (42nd Zinebi Filmfestival), Lissabon (2nd Indielisboa - Michael Glawogger retrospective)

Best Documentary - Sao Paulo 1998; Vienna Film Award - Viennale 1998; Golden Spin Award - San Francisco 1999; NFB Award for Best Documentary - Vancouver 1999; Best Director - Riga `Arsenals`2000