30th Hong Kong International Film Festival

China, April 4 - April 19 2006

The jury

Mark Peranson (Canada), Kong Rithdee (), William Cheung (Hong Kong)

Awarded films

The Silent Holy Stones by Wanmacaidan
(Tibet, 2005, 102 mins)

Reports

Tibet from the Inside: The Silent Holy Stones By Kong Rithdee by Kong Rithdee
A Short Interview with Raya Martin By Mark Peranson by Mark Peranson

A wonderful place to discover young Asian films — as our jurors did. The winner is a Tibetan film, The Silent Holy Stones by Wanma-caidan (Tibet, 2005). According to our jury, “the film beautifully and precisely observes a place in which the pressure of tradition, modernisation and globalisation results in cultural changes that are subtly reflected in everyday life.”