Tibet film bags Jury Grand Prix at Shanghai film festival

Tibetan director Pema Tseden's The Search scooped the Jury Grand Prix at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), which ended on Sunday.

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

Christina Yao's Empire of Silver, a mainland-Hong Kong-Taiwan co-production about a young heir to a giant banking empire in 1899, took the Jury Award.