A young ranch hand hunts justice for his sister through the vast landscape of South Dakota. As he wrestles with what he is about to do, Cody crosses paths with a local county sheriff coming to terms with what she has already done.
"Standoff Kuleshov" is a short film re-enacting exploring two "effects" of cinematic language, the Kuleshov Effect and Einstein's interruption of time. "Standoff Kuleshov" takes these elements and creates a comedic twist on the iconic climactic scene in Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966).
After killing the policeman who arrested him, drug dealer Zhang Hu flees. Three years later, Zhang Hu's drug gang finds the illegal-truck driver Li Jun and forces him to transport goods for them. Anti-drug captain Tang Xudong succeeds in convincing Li Jun to be an informant with pay as Li Jun needs the money for his wife’s medical treatment, and thus begins his informant operation laden with danger. As things develop far beyond Tang's plan, it turns out that Li Jun has a bigger purpose.
Driven from his throne by the scheming Targon, the King of Paloma is banished to the prison mines, where his son, Pietro, is bayoneted for protesting. A shipwreck allows the king to escape and find refuge with his followers on Paloma's rocky shore. Rosita cares for the blinded king and tells him of Pinto Pete, who defends the oppressed with his bullwhip.
The epic story of Xi Zhongxun and other veteran proletarian revolutionaries who, for the cause of the Party and the benefit of the people, spread the revolutionary spark across Northwest China like wildfire. From defending the few remaining revolutionary base areas to the overwhelming overthrow of the Chiang Kai-shek regime, they adhered to the principle of seeking truth from facts, relied on the masses, and ultimately established a New China.