Top festival gives short films first-time awards

Shi Nuo, a 26-year-old director, seeks to tackle the subject of aging and facing death in a 17-minute film that has just been announced winner in its category at an annual event in Beijing.

Navigators features an accidental yet moving friendship between a dying old man and a bullied schoolboy who has lost his mother.

On Tuesday, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival declared the film had won the top prize in its international short film competition.