'' Five Minutes of Heaven '' premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2009 . It won in the World Cinema Directed Award : Dramatic , and World Cinema Screenwriting Award categories . It received its Irish premiere at the 2009 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival on 21 February 2009 . A screening was given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in London on 23 March 2009 . It was followed by a question-and-answer session with Hirschbiegel , Hibbert and Nesbitt . It was broadcast on BBC Two in England , Scotland and Wales on 5 April 2009 and on BBC One Northern Ireland on 13 April . Pathé holds worldwide theatrical distribution rights
2009 Sundance Film Festival
2009 Sundance Film Festival
Five Minutes of Heaven