· Special Mention - Sheffield Innovation Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011
· 2nd Prize - Muhr Asia/Africa Documentary Award at Dubai Int. Film Festival 2010
· Nominated: Orizzonti Prize at Venice Film Festival 2010
· Sundance Film Festival 2011
· Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2011
· Vancouver Int. Film Festival 2011
· London Film Festival 2010

"The mix of spoken word and music (selected from a daunting range of sources)
is as rich as editor Miikka Leskinen's visual blend, which often dazzles with its
audacity." FOUR STARS

"Miikka Leskinen’s editing is simply perfect."

"Poetically edited together by Miikka Leskinen to capture intriguing aspects
of the immigrant experience."

"The Nine Muses is superbly edited by Miikka Leskinen"

"Miikka Leskinen's film editing is an outstanding achievement in the assembly
and timing of an immensely complicated visual narrative."

"Sharing some thematic and aesthetic ground with his widely acclaimed gallery piece
Mnemosyne, but developing and extending the focus, this new feature work confirms
John Akomfrah as one of the UK's most singular and visionary filmmakers. [...]
Akomfrah wears his erudition lightly: the sophistication of his investigation
of identity, memory and myth is breathtaking but understated, and social history
is rarely re-imagined as lyrically as this."

"Akomfrah's The Nine Muses wraps the viewer in literature, music and archive footage,
summoning up a mood rather than a story that reflects on the immigrant experience
and the violence of displacement with a majestic grace."