Six awards at hands back from the 17th Shanghai Film Festival, the film "Tibet Sky" (or "Phurbu & Tenzin") by Shanghai Film Group Corporation gains more fame as the film is shown in leading cinemas across China, yunnan.cn reported.

Besides the author Alai’s participation in producing work, the two-hour film boasts an all-Tibetan cast and very original Tibetan landscape and culture that touches people's hearts with a story that runs from the liberation of Tibet in 1950s until the 1980s. In that story childhood friends become enemies when they grow up, because of the huge gap between their identities and families. Phurbu, the serf, starts his life as a lama in the name of Tenzin, which means all chants he makes, and all his prayers, shall be owned by Tenzin.

English subtitled version of the film will come out soon, it is expected that the film will attend the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada in August. 

The producer and screenwriter of that film Alai is a Chinese novelist of Tibetan descent on his mother's side. His first novel "Red Poppies" published in 1998 won him national fame. He became the youngest winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2003 at the age of 44, for his saga novel "All Dust Settled", an excerpt from which has been inscribed in China's high-school curriculum.