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NEW DELHI -- The week-long Kolkata Film Festival, India's only non-competitive festival, ended Friday with a screening of Kaalpurush by renowned Indian director Buddhadeb Dasgupta.

Now in its 12th year, a highlight of this year's festival was the first-ever participation from China, which saw four contemporary films screened including a Sunday premiere Sunday for 7 Colours, a collection of seven short films. One the film's seven directors, Lu Yitong, and actress Yang Qing were in attendance.

The Chinese flavor at the festival comes just a week before the official visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India.

Other Chinese films unspooling included Yang Li's noirish 2003 title Blind Shaft; 2005 Cannes Jury Prize winner Shanghai Dreams, directed by Xiaoshuai Wang; and 2005's Perpetual Motion, by director Ning Ying.

The festival, which opened with Danish filmmaker Andres Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples, showcased 225 films, compared with 149 last year, from 53 countries, including a special showcase of eight films by Ingmar Bergman.

Also included were retrospectives of Italian filmmakers Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini, whose birth centenaries are being observed this year.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Bangkok International Film Festival was won over by the French-Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions, which walked away with the Golden Kinnaree for best film. Director Denys Arcand's Barbarian was one of 13 films in competition. One of the entries -- Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation -- got lost in transportation, never making it to the screen at the festival. The festival came to a close Sunday evening with the world premiere screening of David Mamet's Spartan. Other winners included three Chinese actors in Blind Shaft sharing the best actor Golden Kinnaree. Yi Xiang Li, Shuangbao Wang and Baoqiang Wang won in the Chinese movie directed by Yang Li. Giovanna Mezzogiorno walked away with the Golden Kinnaree for best actress for her role in Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Window, made in Italy, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Portugal.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Hong Kong movies once again dominated the 40th Golden Horse Awards. Infernal Affairs, Hong Kong's entry for the best foreign-language film at the Oscars, took home awards in six categories, while another Hong Kong film, Golden Chicken, won in the three categories in which it was nominated. In this annual celebration to recognize outstanding figures in the world of Chinese-language films, Hong Kong filmmakers took 14 award categories, Taiwanese films took seven, Chinese filmmakers took two and Singapore took one (sharing the new performer category with Chinese film Blind Shaft). Affairs, nominated in 12 categories at Saturday's ceremony, took home best picture, director (Andy Lau and Alan Mak), actor (Tony Leung), supporting actor (Anthony Wong) and sound effects (Kinson Tsang). The film also took home the audience award, voted on by Taiwanese moviegoers.

NEW YORK -- Blind Shaft, the piercing indictment of the Chinese mining industry from first-time director Li Yang, took home the top narrative feature Sunday night as the Tribeca Film Festival wrapped up its second year with a ceremony that meted out 11 awards. Two films won the Budweiser/TriggerStreet.com Audience Award for Best Feature: David G. Berger, Holly Maxson, and Kate Hirson's Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton, a portrait of the bass player/photographer; and Chen Kaige's Together, a Chinese story about a father and his son, a young violin prodigy, who move from their rural hometown to Beijing to study with a master teacher.