DARK EDEN has been awarded with this year’s Grimme Award in the category Information & Culture. Additionally to the Grimme Award for the directors Jasmin Herold and Michael Beamish, the movie received the Grimme Award for editing (Martin Kayser-Landwehr) and cinematography (Andreas Köhler). The statement says: “To turn the movie into a portrait and character study makes it a captivating, even entertaining narrative – and gives the viewer the chance to understand even the most dubious positions and attitudes.”