Nini, What Time Is It There?

A young woman goes on an anonymous journey to her late husband's hometown Leshan, a small city in Sichuan province. There, she meets an old friend, a local theatre actress preparing for an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Sichuan). In a home-place unfamiliar, the traveling woman meets the imaginary. Ghosted by Shen Te the protagonist of the play, the actress loses the self at the intersection between fiction and reality. Unprepared, the filmmaker loses control of her camera. Together, they drift into a polyrhythmic experience of stasis.

Vicky, a young Chinese mural painter, works at the Warner Bros. World construction site in Abu Dhabi. In a moment of heightened emotion, Vicky, her friends, and a filmmaker come together in a fleeting shared space, weaving dreams and imaginations. As the narrator reflects on the daily lives of Vicky and her friends, she strives to unravel the subtle, enigmatic bonds that connect them.

This cave is very large. About twenty meters in width, fifty meters in height, and some two hundred meters in length. Inside can be found a stream running through, with its interiors decked with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. In addition, there are several chambers inside. The most famous of which is the Tham Phi Man which is as huge as a hall and in which a prehistoric wood coffin was found.

Reiko, who has retired from acting, now lives with Masao, an illustrator. Meanwhile, Mitto, a childhood friend and former idol, shows up at the studio of Tamade, a cameraman, bringing her pet Betta fish along. Mitto says she is planning a performance event in order to self-publish a novel. Reiko and Tamade, along with Masao, each become involved in Mitto’s event in their own way. The appearance of Mitto brings a subtle change to the future path the three of them will walk. This is the story of four people and a fish, intertwining their lives in unexpected ways.