[1] The film premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in November 2016.

[2] The film was screened at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize.

[3] The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Proto).

[4] It won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.

[5] Resurrecting Hassan was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2018.