TIBER in the Media
Festival screenings & press
Awards & reviews
Byron Bay International Film Festival 2026
Winner — Best Byron Bay Film
Honourable Mention — Best Dramatic Feature
“a superb impactful film”
★★★★★ — Glam Adelaide, Rob McKinnon, 17 October 2026.
Read the five-star review
Past screenings & festival selections
Adelaide Film Festival — World Premiere · Feature Fiction Competition
Friday 16 October 2026, 6:00 pm — The Piccadilly, Cinema 1
Saturday 24 October 2026, 6:30 pm — Palace Nova Eastend (filmmakers in attendance)
View the official Adelaide Film Festival listing
Byron Bay International Film Festival — NSW Premiere
Tuesday 20 October 2026, 7:00 pm + Q&A — Palace Byron Bay
Cast and crew in attendance.
View the official Byron Bay festival listing
Matera International Film Festival — Italian Premiere · Official Competition
Matera, Italy · Festival dates: 26 September–4 October 2026
See the official festival site for programme details.
Visit the official Matera festival site
In the media
“TIBER moves through a Tuscany thick with cultural memory toward a moment of private reckoning.”
— Variety Australia, announcing the 2026 Adelaide Goes to Cannes selection
Adelaide screenings
TIBER held its world premiere on Friday 16 October 2026 at The Piccadilly, Cinema 1, in the Adelaide Film Festival Feature Fiction Competition. The second Adelaide screening was on Saturday 24 October 2026 at 6:30 pm at Palace Nova Eastend, with filmmakers in attendance.
Reviews & coverage
SBS Italian — Carlo Oreglia’s 14 October interview with lead actor Marcus J. Cotterell ahead of the Australian world premiere: Listen to the SBS Italian interview
The AU Review — Adelaide Film Festival 2026 opening-night pink carpet gallery, 15 October 2026 (festival opening night, not the TIBER premiere): View the pink carpet gallery
“A jaw-droppingly beautiful and poignant father-daughter road trip movie… full of breath-taking imagery… Bring tissues!”
— Adelaide Film Festival
“These are pretty heavy themes, so it was important for me to approach the work with a lot of humour, a lot of drama and a lot of love.”
— Director Dominic Allen, interviewed by InReview / InDaily at Cannes
FilmInk covered the announcement of TIBER’s Australian and international premieres, including its Adelaide, Matera and Byron Bay selections.
Festival journey
In May 2026, TIBER was one of five Australian projects selected for Adelaide Goes to Cannes, presenting at the Marché du Film at the Festival de Cannes. The film was presented at Palais K on 15 May 2026.
View the official Marché du Film project page
TIBER is a completed Australian–Italian feature selected for the 2026 Feature Fiction Competition at Adelaide Film Festival and Official Competition at Matera International Film Festival.