The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2004. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a fifteen-minute standing ovation. It was also shown at the Copenhagen International Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema, the Aubagne Film Festival, the Dinard Festival of British Cinema, the Austin Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Heartland Film Festival, the Milwaukee International Film Festival, and the Scottsdale Film Festival before going into limited release in the UK and US.