Chen Jin

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With “Journey” as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. “The Sea” is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child’s trip to the sea from Beijing. “Hekishu,” a film by Daishi Matsunaga (Japan), tells about the journey of a Japanese businessman involved in infrastructure development in Yangon. The film depicts the entrepreneur’s emotional feelings in the face of Yangon residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the new infrastructure. The last is a film titled “Variable No. 3” by Edwin (Indonesia), which tells the story of a couple’s journey to Tokyo. There they meet a mysterious man. The man who works as a tour guide and rents out the inn, gives a strange advice to the husband and wife.

Can beauty be standardized? What challenges will a girl with non-standard beauty played by Yoko Raame face in a world where everyone is beautiful?

The film describes the magnificent life story of Fan Jinshi, the "Daughter of Dunhuang" and winner of the national honorary title, who sticks to the desert and protects the world's treasure Mogao Grottoes. Taking root in Dunhuang for more than 50 years, Fan Jinshi (played by Chen Jin) and her colleagues from the Dunhuang Academy have been fighting alone against the wind and sand in the northwest to rescue and protect every cultural relic in the Mogao Grottoes; "Mogao must never be allowed to The grottoes have disappeared in our generation!" As time entered the millennium, facing the mighty wave of marketization and tourists from all directions, Fan Jinshi suddenly discovered that the biggest threat to the national treasures in the Mogao Grottoes had never been It's not just the natural environment, but the unpredictable human heart... After reaching her sixtieth year, she must get out of the "hole" where she has worked hard all her life...

Lin Gensheng comes to work in the desert.