In the City of Sylvia "In Review Online" named it the 2nd best film of 2008. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of "The A.V. Club" described it as "something of a masterpiece." "En la Ciudad de Sylvia" was nominated for the 2007 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, although the award was eventually presented to Ang Lee for "Lust, Caution". "En la Ciudad de Sylvia" won the 2008 Australian Film Critics Association award for the 'best unreleased film' in Australia at the time of the awards. Guerín won the best director award of the Premios ACE 2009 for this film. In the City of Sylvia In the
Encounters at the End of the World following: "Encounters at the End of the World" won the award for Best Documentary at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Special Prize at Planet Doc Review Festival in Warsaw (both in 2008). Encounters at the End of the World Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog. The film studies people and places in Antarctica. It was released in North America on June 11, 2008, and distributed by THINKFilm. Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there and to capture footage of the