Desert Dream wins best film at India's Cinefan festival

The film, which premiered in competition at Berlin this year, follows a mother and son who escape from North Korea, first into China and then Mongolia. Zhang, who is Chinese but also ethnically Korean, picked up Pusan's New Currents Award in 2005 for his previous film Grain In Ear.

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