Hong Kong Film Wins Big At Italian Festival

Hit Hong Kong film Still Human has won the top prizes at the annual Far East Film Festival in Udine, Europe's largest festival of Asian cinema.

The film won both the critic's award and the audience award, the first time the audience prize has gone to a Hong Kong film since 2003's classic Infernal Affairs.

The festival also honoured the film's star, veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong. He received the Golden Mulberry award for outstanding achievement.

The movie, helmed by first-time director Oliver Chan, tells the story of a disabled man, played by Wong, and his Filipino domestic helper, played by Crisel Consunji.

"We live on the other side of the world and we were worried that our film wouldn't be understood. But the world speaks a single language: the language of love," Consunji said in a statement on the organisers' website.