Buddha Mountain is best film at Toronto fest

Buddha Mountain is best film at Toronto fest

Buddha Mountain

MUMBAI: The recently concluded 15th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival saw the Fasken Martineau Best Feature Film Award lapped up by Chinese director Li Yu‘s Buddha Mountain.

The other highlights of the awards ceremony include the opening night gala presentation of the Hong Kong film Lover‘s Discourse, the Canadian shorts program Trailblazers, the world premiere of Vietnamese-Canadian feature film Pearls of the Far East and the new media exhibition Lost Secrets of the Royal.

Other winners include: National Ban Best First Feature Film Award to South Korean film The Journals of Musan, Jury Honourable mention to Chinese film Piercing 1,
Animasian Award to Japan‘s In a Pig‘s Eye, Jury honourable mention to Canadian film Sketchi, Movieola Best Short Film or Video Award to Canadian film Une Chanson d‘Hiver,
NFB Best Canadian Film or Video Award to Les Cordes de Muybridge, WIFT - T Award to The Canadian film The Sugard Bowl by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson.

The curtains of the festival which spotlighted 60 films from 12 countries was wrung down earlier this week, wrapping its event,.