The film My People, My Country hit Chinese cinemas to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China last year. According to general director Chen Kaige and six other directors, the film focuses on national memories and tells ordinary Chinese people's stories.
Passing By is about a scientist who worked on China's first atomic bomb (原子弹). He had to say goodbye forever to his lover in the 1960s. Zhang Yibai is the director of this story. In The Champion, a boy has to fix a TV antenna (天线) so that his neighbors can watch the Chinese women's volleyball team play in the 1984 Olympics. The director is Xu Zheng.
Going Home is about Hong Kong's return to China in 1997. It focuses on a Chinese soldier who is responsible for raising the national flag at midnight.
Hello, Beijing is about a taxi driver who gets a ticket for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He plans to give it to his son as a birthday gift. But instead, the kind-hearted man gives it to another child in the end.
One for All focuses on a female fighter jet pilot who helps her partner complete a performance that is part of a military parade (阅兵式) held in 2015 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War I.
