Awards
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 2012
- Distinguished Cultural Activist Badge 2001
- Badge of Merit for Independence 1956-1989 2018
„Stone Silence”
- "Sky is the Limit" Award in „work in progress” category, Chicago International Documentary Festival 2007
- Ecumenical Jury Award, 50th DOK Leipzig 2007
- Best Directorial Debut Award, MiradasDoc (Spain) 2008
- Special Jury Award, 5th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival "Docudays", Kiev 2008
- Honorary Diploma, 48th Cracow Film Festival 2008
- Audience Award, XV Polish Film Festival, Ann Arbor (USA) 2008
- III Prize, 17th European Film Festival "dokumentART", Szczecin-Neubrandenburg 2008
- I Prize, I Festival of Films about Family FOR, Łódź 2008
- Honorary Diploma of Polish Film Institute, 2008
“The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls”
- Silver Hobbyhorse for the Director of the Best Documentary Film, Cracow Film Festival 2015
- Recommendation to the European Film Award, Cracow Film Festival 2015
- Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI, International Film Festival in Odessa 2015
- Nomination for the Leipziger Ring Award, DOK Leipzig 2015
- Special Jury Mention for Feature Documentary, Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for the Best Directing of the International Documentary Film, Nice International Film Festival South of France 2016
- The Warsaw Phoenix – Special Award for the Best Polish Film, International Film Festival ‘Jewish Motifs’ 2016
- Prize in the Category: Full-feature Documentary Films, Near Nazareth Festival 2016
- Prize in the Section ‘Conflict’, Moscow Jewish Film Festival 2016
- Special Mention of the Director of the Cinema with Soul Documentary Festival, Warsaw 2017
Other film awards
- Best Polish Short and Documentary Producer Award, 46th Cracow Film Festival 2006
- Laurel – National Russian Film Award in the best short auctorial documentary category (co-winners Wojciech Kasperski and Szymon Lenkowski) – „The Seeds” 2006
- Laurel – Nomination for National Russian Film Award in the best non-fiction TV film category (co-winner Wojciech Kasperski) – „The Seeds” 2006
- Best Polish Short and Documentary Producer Award, 47th Cracow Film Festival 2007
- I Prize for short film, IV International Documentary Film Festival "Punto de Vista", Pampeluna, Spain (co-winner Rafał Skalski) – „52 Percent” 2007
- Film Critic Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival (co-winner Beata Dzianowicz) – „Kites” 2008
Other awards
- Wacław Borowy Award for activities in the student scientific movement (three times) 1978-1982
- Special Mention of Solidarity of Underground Publishers for editing of samizdat: Czesław Miłosz „Quest” (CDN Publishing House, Warszawa 1985) 1985
- Rector of the University of Warsaw Award (four times) 1983-2018
- Beata Pawlak Prize for the book “The Dybbuk: A Tale of Invalidity of World” (co-winner Anna Sajewicz) 2017