Grants Awards
| 2009 | Grant Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany |
| fellows at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany | |
| Media Art Prize Ruhr, Blicke Festival | |
| 2008 | fellows at Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2004 | DAAD 3 months grant for Chicago, USA |
| Residency Sylvie Boisseau, Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt, Berlin | |
| 2003 | First Prize for Sylvie Boisseau „Mimikry“ Competition, Kunstfest Weimar |
| Best foreign film, The Free Man, Red Bank Int. Filmfestival, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA | |
| 2002 | Cineric Prize for The Free Man at the New York Film and Video Expo, NYC, USA |
| 2000 | Major Award of the Jury for Moi vu par... at 10th Int. Bochum Videofestiva |
| 1999 | DAAD 1 year grant for Paris, France |
| 1998 | Best Film Award for My family and I at Cinematexas Int. Filmfestival, Austin, USA |
| Award for My family and I at Views from the Ruhrgebiet Festival |