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The first SCO Film Festival unveils a slew of cinematic exchanges, as member nations plan to embark on a new era of artistic collaboration. Xu Fan reports.

The curtain has dropped on the first SCO Film Festival, an event that gathered together talent from the 12 Shanghai Cooperation Organization member and observer states to boost cultural exchanges and cinematic cooperation.

On the closing night, the Chinese movie Enter the Forbidden City and Mina Walking from Afghanistan jointly won the best picture prize of the Golden Seagull Awards, the festival's top honor. Yosef Baraki, the filmmaker behind Mina Walking - a 110-minute tale of a 12-year-old Afghan street seller named Mina - took home the award for best director.