Director J.Sengedorj’s “The Sales Girl” was among the winners at the  Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema on Tuesday.

“The Sales Girl,” which played at Busan and won awards at the New York and Osaka Asian film festivals, won the Golden Cyclo, the festival’s top honor awarded by the international jury. Showing another side of contemporary Mongolia, J.Sengedorj’s humorous tale turns on the unusual friendship that arises between the two women each in their own way lonely and looking for a kind of liberation from a sometimes hopeless existence.

The festival, founded by Martine and Jean-Marc Therouanne, unspooled its 29th edition Feb. 28-March 7. It remains as popular as ever with almost all screenings going full.