Crossing the Border - Zhaoguan

Because his father is working and his mother is heavily pregnant, seven-year-old Ningning is sent to spend the summer holidays in the countryside with his 77-year-old grandfather Li Fuchang. When the latter learns that an old friend is dying after a stroke, he decides to make the 500-kilometre journey to the hospital together with his grandson by motorbike. A road trip begins for the two in which, as is so often the case, the journey is the destination. On the way, the two meet a frustrated young man, a grumpy middle-aged truck driver and a lonely old beekeeper. Their brush with these three men ignites several philosophical conversations between grandfather and grandson about death, and about remembering. In this Chinese road movie, crossing borders becomes a metaphor for life. (Berlinale)