THE Chinese film “The Dead End” became a big winner with the best director and best actor awards at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), which ended Sunday.

    Cao Baoping, director of “The Dead End,” won the best director award while Deng Chao, Duan Yihong and Guo Tao shared the best actor award for the film.

    “The Dead End” tells the story of an unforgivable crime in which a family of five is brutally slaughtered in a rape-murder case. The perpetrators evaded arrest but later confessed to their crime and were brought to justice.

    “The Night Watchman,” jointly filmed by France and Belgium, won the best feature film of the top Golden Goblet award.

    “Carte Blanche” from Poland won the Jury Grand Prix award. “Cake” from the United States won the best screenplay award. Krista Kosonen from Finland won the best actress award for “The Midwife.”

    The SIFF was founded in 1993. This year, 391 Chinese and foreign films were screened during the one-week festival, which attracted an audience of more than 300,000.(SD-Agencies)