[4][5] Winter Brothers debuted in the Concorso Internazionale section at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival on 3 August 2017.

[8] It later premiered in the USA at the 47th annual New Directors/New Films Festival at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, NYC.

[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[7] Film critic Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a confidently handled, promisingly edgy feature debut from Copenhagen-based, Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Pálmason".

[6] Winter Brothers won the 2018 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and Best Cinematography (Maria von Hausswolff).