 The film's art director, Marie-Louise Bartholomew, won the Best Production Designer Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Greek State Film Awards in November 2005.In addition, the film was officially selected for screening at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2005 and in October 2006 where, during both times, it was nominated for the .Professor Vrasidas Karalis, an expert on Greek cinema and the author of "A History of Greek Cinema", described in this book the film as "highly personal" and "hermetic."