Sergey Dvortsevoy's 'Tulpan' wins in Zurich

October 07, 2008 The Zurich Film Festival closed Sunday, honoring Greek helmer Costa-Gavras and dishing out awards for its feature and documentary competition winners as well as the audience prize and a new talent award. The jury, headed by Peter Fonda, gave top feature film honors to Sergey Dvortsevoy's "Tulpan," a Swiss-Russian tragicomedy about a Kazakh seaman who wants to become a sheepherder, while Arash T. Riahi's "For a Moment, Freedom," about Iranian refugees in Austria, received a Golden Eye award as best debut. The audience award went to "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner," Stephan Komandarev's Bulgarian-German-Hungarian-Slovenian co-production about a German-born child of Bulgarian refugees who loses his family and his memory in a car accident.

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