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Tibetan gets Jury Grand Prix at Shanghai film festival

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Tibetan director Pema Tsetan (centre) holds the trophy for the Jury Grand Prix at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Sunday, 21 June 2009. Tsetan’s The Search scooped the Jury Grand Prix at the 12th film festival.Xinhua/China

Tibetan director Pema Tsetan’s ‘The Search’ bagged the Jury Grand Prix at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) that ended on Sunday, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.

The film follows a director’s search for a leading actor for his drama set in picturesque Tibet.

Tsetan’s debut film ‘The Grassland’ was produced in 2004 and his second film ‘The Silent Holy Stones’ was made in 2005. Both the films had won many Chinese and international awards.

SIFF’s Jury Award was presented to Christina Yao’s ‘Empire of Silver,’ a mainland-Hong Kong-Taiwan co-production about a young heir to a giant banking empire in 1899.

The Golden Goblet Award went to a comedy film titled ‘Original,’ co-produced by Danish and Swedish filmmakers.

The film, directed by Antonio Tublen and Alexander Brondsted, tells the story of a man who gets tired of living up to others’ expectations, and tries to make his own course.

Jury leader Danny Boyle described the film as “a light, touching and subversive study of mental illness that is both compassionate and never sentimental,” Xinhua quoted Boyle as saying.

The leading actor of the film Sverrir Gudnason was also named the Best Actor.

“I feel so good,” he said. “This is the best thing that anybody has given to me and will keep me going.”

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