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Hong Kong's low-budget film, Echoes of the Rainbow won the Crystal Bear award for Best Feature Film in the Generation category. This is the first time a Hong Kong film has won this prize.

With the appropriate funds from the HKSAR government, the film cost less than 10 million yuan ($1,470,588) to produce. In spite of limited funding, the Crystal Bear Award having been awarded for the film has encouraged the Hong Kong film circle.

Echoes of the Rainbow tells a story of a common immigrant family striving in the 60s of Hong Kong. It's told through the perspective of a naughty boy, who is the director and screen writer Alex Law himself. Although the film's Chinese name is Time Thief, the story doesn't concern a thief at all. Mabel Cheung, the producer and wife of the director, said time is a powerful thief that can steal many things: love, friendship, and parents sometimes.

Cast members include Simon Yam and Sandra Ng, who play a cobbler father and a happy-go-lucky mother. Through the elder brother's first romance, and the family's encounters with love, hope, failure, death and rebirth, we travel back to a place called old Hong Kong, a time we'll always remember, and a place we have always called home.

(Source: ent.qq.com/ Translated by womenofchina.cn)