The Sixth China Changchun Film Festival closed Monday in Changchun, the capital of northeastern Jilin Province and one of the largest film production bases in the country.
The Golden Deer award went to Prairie in Heaven, a movie about how a handicapped Han kid eventually overcomes his own weakness resultant from his poor health condition thanks to his personal experience of contact with honest and benevolent locals of ethnic Mongolians on vast grasslands.
The French film Marty's World won the Best Foreign Feature Film. Hou Yong was awarded the Best Actor for his part in the Chinese movie Frequency for Victory and Hong Kong's Anita Mui, the Best Actress for July Rhapsody.
A total of 123 films competed for the Golden Deer and Silver Deer awards. Among them were 97 Chinese language films, including 29 from Hong Kong and seven from Taiwan.
Twenty-five Chinese language films including seven from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and five foreign language films were finalists.
The twenty-six foreign language films screening at the gala come from France, the United States, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, New Zealand and Egypt, or were shot by film companies from two or more countries.
(Xinhua News Agency August 26, 2002)
