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Hong Kong director takes top award

Wayne Wang

Wayne Wang has taken the coveted Golden Shell prize at the 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The Hong Kong director won best film, for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

It depicts a stunted father-daughter relationship.

Meanwhile, Briton Nick Broomfield scooped the best director prize.

He was awarded the gong for Battle for Haditha, a documentary drama about the Iraq war.

It portrays the events leading to the killing of 24 Iraqi non-combatants at the hands of US Marines in November 2005.

In all 16 movies were screened at the event.

It closed with a showing of crime drama 'Flawless' by British filmmaker Michael Radford, starring Demi Moore.

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