World Premiere
38th International Film Festival Rotterdam
Bright Futures
- NETPAC Special Mention Award "for [the director's] bravery, his folly and his determination in showing us his little piece of heaven." 
Asian Premiere
33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival
Indie Power 
22nd Singapore International Film Festival
In Focus 
10th Jeonju International Film Festival
International Competition 
11th Barcelona Asian Film Festival
Oficial
- Special Mention Award "for its unusual approach and his masterly direction"
5th Libertas Film Festival
In competition: Feature Narratives 
27th Filmfest München
Focus on the Far East 
18th Brisbane International Film Festival
Asia Pacific
- NETPAC Award 
4th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
Asian Feature
- Golden Hanoman Award
- NETPAC Award: "This film embodies a respectful and unobstrusive directorial approach in representing the struggle for survival. It shows an intelligent use of cinematic apparatus in addressing not only a question that we all share in Asia-namely how to keep rice farming sustainable-but also the universal question of challenging state hegemony"
28th Vancouver International Film Festival
Dragons & Tigers 
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Special Invitation Film 
36th Flanders International Film Festival Ghent
World Cinema - A LOOK APART 
7th Doclisboa
Riscos 
11th Mumbai Film Festival
World Cinema 
47th VIENNALE - Vienna International Film Festival
Propositions 
10th Asiaticafilmmediale, Rome
Competition 
CPH:DOX
Re:Think 
24th Mar del Plata International Film Festival
The State of Things
13th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Feature Presentationc
- Best Narrative Film
Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival
Gala Screenings / Voice from the SEA
31st Festival des 3 Continents
Official Selection - Out of Competition
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