The prestigious Camden International Film Festival in Maine has wrapped its 21st edition after presenting jury and audience awards.

Always (从来) , directed by Deming Chen and produced by Hansen Lin, won the festival’s Harrell Award, the feature documentary’s third major honor after winning the DOX:Award at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen and the editing award at DocsBarcelona. The film, which is built around poems written by 8-year-old Youbin Gong and his fellow schoolmates in a rural, mountainous part of China’s Hunan province, screens at the BFI London Film Festival in October.

The jury, comprised of Genevieve Carmel, Faridah Gbadamosi and Bob Moore, called the film “a breathtaking and deeply cinematic portrait of a boy and his family living in a small village in Hunan Province, expressing hi

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