BEST DIRECTOR AWARD AT SCO FILM FESTIVAL
The five-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Film Festival concluded on January 31 in India’s economic hub of Mumbai.
Rao Xiaozhi, director of the Chinese film Home Coming, won the award for the best director. Born in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, in 1980, Rao graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and started his career as a film and theater director in the early 2000s.
Based on real events, depicts a perilous journey of two unarmed Chinese diplomats taking 125 Chinese expatriots to flee a war-torn country across a desert and through artillery fire. Released in late September 2022, the
