KYOTO INTERNATIONAL FILM AND ART FESTIVAL

To be or not to be is the question that Beyond the Skies asks. The war film follows a young soldier named Hong Qichen, who trudges through the bloodstained ruins in his deadly mission to blow up the enemy’s ammunition depot within 48 hours. He puts together a squad of wounded soldiers in the treacherous mountains for a knock-down drag-out fight. Questioning whether their sacrifices are worth it, his brothers in arms fall in front of his eyes. The mission gets harder and harder to complete as time passes. Those who believe persist; others sink into the abyss of history. A pilgrimage to death, Beyond the Skies tells a heart-breaking utopian story during the Chinese Civil War, embodying poetics of Chinese cinema.

This is an epic film depicting the cruel war with the texture of Chinese ink painting.

CHEN Weixin
WU Jiahui
NIE Jinquan
YING Linjian
CHEN Yuze
ZHAO Yuxuan
CHEN Wenyuan
LIN Yi

Director

LIU Zhihai

Written by

ZHOU Jiali

Cinematography

MI Xinjun

Music

Dukar Tserang, Franz Schubert

Producer

ZHANG Fanfan, DING Ju

Country

China

Year

2021

Copyright

Zhejiang Films & TV (Group) Co.,ltd.China Academy of Art