Chilean filmmaker seeks links with China

BEIJING - Chilean filmmaker Silvio Caiozzi says he did not expect that his work would be cheered and understood as it was in Beijing recently.

His latest feature film And Suddenly the Dawn was well received at the Beijing International Film Festival.

The three-hour movie, crowned Best Film at the Montreal World Film Festival in September, is set in Patagonia in Chile, where a man who has escaped from his native land out of fear as a young boy, returns in search of what he had left behind.