The One Man Village

- Muhr Arabic Documentaries – Special Jury Prize – International Film Festival Dubai (UAE – 2008)

- Special Mention from the Grand Jury - One World Human Rights Film Festival Prague (Czech Republic- 2009)

For his first time feature-length film Simon El Habre succeeded in sharing with the audience both a family history and an episode in the history of war-torn Lebanon. He did so with a sensibility to human faces and human words that create a seldom-seen vision of the Middle East.

- Best International Feature Documentary - Hot Docs (Canada – 2009)

For it’s exceptional clarity in the filmic storytelling of a simple man in the Lebanese highlands, told with great empathy and even more skill. This film is an enchanting and gripping film and at once a pleasant and powerful experience.

- Feature Documentary/Special Jury Prize - Monaco Charity Film Festival (Monaco – 2009)

For it’s sobriety and excellence in movie making in tackling a simple subject on everyday’s life.

- Silver Hawk – Arab Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands – 2009)

For its evocation of the larger issues of war and peace in Lebanon through the portrayal of the life of a single man left behind in a village and for the simple and beautiful cinematic language which sustains it.

- Special Mention of the Jury – Expresión en Corto International Film Festival (Mexico – 2009)

For the poignant visual style of this intimate portrait of a One Man Village.

- Special Mention of the Jury - DokuFest (Kosovo – 2009)

- Special Mention of the Jury - Film Festival Della Lessinia (Italy – 2009)

For having recounted courage and persistence, in a region marked by war, through the sympathetic portrayal of a simple man who resists, and doesn’t abandon his small village in Lebanon.

- Best Documentary – AMAL Euro-Arab Film Festival (Spain – 2009)

- Murex d’Or (best Lebanese Film) (Lebanon – 2010)