(XINHUA)

Chinese actor Chen Jianbin won the Most Popular Actor award at the fourth China Image Film Festival in London on October 28 for his starring role in the film People Mountain People Sea, directed by Cai Shangjun.

The film is adapted from the true story of five brothers in southwest China's Guizhou Province who travel across the country by motorbike to track the murderer of their youngest brother. In the film, Chen plays farmer Lao Tie. It also won the Silver Lion at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival.

Chen said that it was not difficult for him to take on his first role as a farmer because of his experience as a child living in a village with his grandparents. Playing the role of Lao Tie made him reconnect with the essence of being a farmer, he said.

The China Image Film Festival was established in 2009 with the purpose of introducing more Chinese films to Britain and is the country's only Chinese-language film festival.