(XINHUA)

A documentary titled Three Sisters , directed by Chinese film director Wang Bing, won the Best Picture Award in the Horizon section of this year's Venice Film Festival on September 9.

The film faithfully records the lives of three sisters in a village of southwest China's Yunnan Province, whose parents went to make a living in cities and left them at home. Wang came across the three girls in Yunnan, and asked if they could offer him anything to eat. The girls welcomed him to their home and served potatoes they had cooked. Impressed with the children's happy attitudes despite a poor and difficult life in a rural area, Wang decided to make a film about the sisters.

Wang is known for making documentaries using digital film technology. He said he was encouraged by the prestigious honor, which he had never imagined winning.