Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The 8th edition of the Pingyao International Film Festival in China awarded its top prize on Saturday to “Karst,” a drama film by China’s Yang Suiyi.
The film depicts a cattle breeder who travels between villages and towns to treat sick cattle in the Southwest of the country.
The jury commended it for “its great fullness simplicity and subtlety and portrait of a region and a woman.” The prize is worth RMB1 million ($142,000) with half given to the director for use in the development of his/her next film, and half given to the film’s Chinese distributor.
The best director award went to Tang Yongkang for “Stars and Moon, which the jury said had “savagely poetic direction.” The prize provides RMB200,000 for future film development.
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