Tiburon Film Festival Articles

Atil Inac's Turkish drama A Step into the Darkness (above) topped the Tiburon International Film Festival's Golden Reel Awards, announced on March 26 in the Northern California town of Tiburon. [See full list of Tiburon 2010 winners.] Initially set in Northern Iraq, A Step into the Darkness follows a young Turkmen woman (Suzan Genç), the only survivor of an American raid that left all her [...]

Leonor Manso Luisa Best Film: A Step into the Darkness by Atil Inac [Turkey] Best Director: Ryszard Bugajski for General Nil [Poland] Best Actor:  Olgierd Lukaszewicz for General Nil [Poland] Best Actress: Leonor Manso for Luisa [Argentina] Best Documentary: Petition by Zhao Liang [China] Best Cinematography: The Red Baron by Klaus Merkel [Czech Republic] Humanitarian Award: Under Rich Earth by Malcolm Rogge [Ecuador/US] Best Musical: [...]

2009 Tiburon (Calif.) Film Festival Awards 2009 Tiburon International Film Festival: March 19-27   Based on a novel by Josef Kopta, Filip Renc's Guard No. 47 tells the story of Josef Dousa, a railway guard and World War I veteran who hopes to forget all the horrors he witnessed in the battlefield by spending his time with his young wife in a lone-standing guard house. [...]

The 2008 Tiburon (Calif.) International Film Festival (TIFF), set for March 13–21, will be showcasing more than 225 films from 94 countries. The festival will open with the US premiere of Miguel Angel Calvo Buttini's political comedy Dos rivales casi iguales / Twins for President at 7 p.m. at the Playhouse Theater on March 13. Twins for President follows twin brothers (Andoni Gracia) of different [...]