Sand and Sea(沙与海)

Liu Zeyuan is a farmer on the edge of the desert at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. He grows food on desertified land and raises camels. The family ’s water comes from a well, and the annual income is 5,000 yuan. Liu Picheng is a fisherman on Jingwa Island, an isolated island on the Liaodong Peninsula. Locals say that he has earned more than 400,000 of his property. He is unwilling to attract attention and even becomes hostile to the camera. Although the living environment and conditions of the two families are different, the directors try to find some common ground while expressing their own unique lifestyles. In fact, their lives are firmly swayed by nature, sand storms can destroy everything, just as the ocean tide can destroy everything, and for the two protagonists, the difficult grasp of the future and their children also brings them the same loneliness. Filmed in 1989 and won the Grand Prix of the Asian Broadcasting and Television Union Grand Prix in 1991.