Akbar Yahefu

Tough Chinese detectives go on a mission to Moscow to hunt down ruthless robbers who have been plaguing the trans-Siberian railway with violence and chaos.

On the grasslands of Huocheng, Ili, Xinjiang, nine-year-old Uyghur boy Aire loves football deeply, but his father strictly bans him from playing. Twenty years ago, a match injury cut short the father’s football career, and he has regarded football as “a devil that destroys lives” ever since. When herding sheep, Aire sneaks in football practice and loses a sheep by accident. Finding out the village five-a-side football championship prize is a sheep, he plans to build a team, win the title and hide his fault. Aire puts together a multi-ethnic ragtag team and persuades retired coach Mijit to coach them. Unbeknownst to him, Mijit is the source of his father’s old grudge. In training and games, the kids learn trust, and old rifts between father and son, mentor and apprentice start to mend. Football finally shows them: in family ties, mentorship and companionship, we never walk alone.

Set in the late Qing Dynasty, the film tells the story of a violent invasion led by the foreign warlord Wazuozhuo, who seeks to destabilize and divide Xinjiang. As unrest spreads, the people of the borderlands—ethnic groups of all backgrounds—join forces with the Qing army. In a fierce and desperate struggle, they fight valiantly to transport supplies and repel the invaders.

Parhat Azimat- school teacher from Uyghur village on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. His childhood football dream was strangled by his father. Many years later dream sport returns to his life with a dozen boys from his new class.