Awards
Accolades
2022
| Winner of Harrell Award, Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), Maine, US
| Jury of Sydney Film Festival, Australia
| Official Selection, First Look, Museum of Moving Images (MoMI) New York, US
| Nominated for ‘Golden Eye’, Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), Switzerland
| Official Selection, Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), Canada
| Official Selection & Invitation, Sydney Film Festival (SFF), Australia
| Official Selection, Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (MDAG), Warsaw, Poland
| Official Selection & Invitation, Festivals of Three Continents in Nantes, France
| Official Selection & Invitation, Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) in Montreal, Canada
| Jury of Critic’s Choice Award, Meril Prothom Alo, Leading Cinema Awards, Bangladesh
2021 | International Competition, IDFA Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 | Jury of Critic’s Choice Award, Meril Prothom Alo, Leading Cinema Awards, Bangladesh
2018 | Awarded Competitive Grant from Sørfond, Norway
2017
| Official Selection, Cinefondation, CANNES Film Festival, France
| Awarded Competitive Grant from World Cinema Fund (WCF), BERLINALE Film Festival, Germany
| Awarded Competitive Grant from Visions Sud Est, Switzerland
2016
| Featured Red Carpet Director in the Piazza Grande, LOCARNO, Switzerland
| Opening Night Film of Open Doors, LOCARNO Film Festival, Switzerland
| Winner of Open Doors Award, LOCARNO Film Festival, Switzerland
| Winner of ARTE International Prix, France
| Official Selection, Festival de l’Oh, France
| Official Selection, Festival International Jean Rouch, France
| Official Selection, Images mouvementées, France
| Official Selection, La Lanterne Magique, France
| Official Selection, Filmhaus Nürnberg, Germany
Kamar Ahmad Simon (C) featured as the Red Carpet Director in Piazza Grande after winning the Open Doors Award at Locarno by the then Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian.
2015 | Winner of National Film Award, Bangladesh | Winner of The Asian Pitch, Singapore
2014 | Winner of Audience Choice Award, Seattle South Asian Film Festival, Seattle, US | Official Selection, Chicago South Asian Film Festival, Chicago, US | Winner of Best Cinematography, MUMBAI International Film Festival, India | Winner of Golden Conch, MUMBAI International Film Festival, India | Official Selection, Kerala International Documentary & Short Film Festival, India | Official Selection, La Fabrique Cinéma du monde, CANNES, France | Official Selection, SemaineIndienne à l’ENS, France | Official Selection, Stronger than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, Australia | International Competition, Blede Festival, Slovenia | Official Selection, Climatefilmfestival: To Future with Love, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 | Winner of Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France
| Official Selection, Festival de Films Documentaires de Lasalle, France | Awarded Competitive Grant from SUNDANCE Film Festival, US | Awarded Competitive Grant from IDFA-Bertha Fund, Netherlands | International Competition, DOK.fest München, Germany | Official Selection, Globale Film Festival Berlin, Germany| Official Selection, Schlosstheater Moers, Germany | Official Selection, Take One Action Film Festival, UK | International Competition, Millenium Documentary Film Festival, Belgium | Official Selection, PriFilmFest, Kosovo | International Competition, Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, Australia | Official Selection, Asiatica Film Mediale, Italy | International Competition, Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey | Official Selection, Patmos International Film Festival, Greece | New Asian Currents Competition, Yamagata Documentary Film Festival, Japan | International Competition, Abu Dhabi International Documentary Film Festival, Abu Dhabi | Official Selection, Erasmus Huis International Documentary Film Festival, Indonesia | Winner of Jury Award, Film South Asia (FSA), Nepal | Winner of The Asian Pitch, Singapore
2012 | Opening Night Film, Dok LEIPZIG, Germany | Official Selection & Invitation, IDFA Amsterdam, Netherlands | Awarded Competitive Grant from Visions Sud Est, Switzerland | Winner of Best Pitch, Docedge, Kolkata, India
2011 | Awarded Competitive Grant from Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden | Awarded Competitive Grant from IDFA Jan Vrijman Fund, Netherlands
Kamar Ahmad Simon with filmmaker Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Dairies) and the rest of La Fabrique directors at the red carpet of Cannes.
ALUMNI
| European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) Producers & Writer’s Workshop (Luxembourg, Netherlands & Croatia) 2012 | IDFAcademy Summer School (Netherlands) 2010 & 2019 | BERLINALE Talent (Germany) 2012 | Alumni of Asian Film Academy Busan (South Korea) 2009 | Bachelor of Architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) 2005 |