The four girls are excellent young riders. Which distinguishes them from their peers is that they each have a horse and each girl has a story related to herself and her horse. During the year, we recorded their efforts and results while they were preparing for the national young sports meeting. What was unexpected is the separation between them and their loved ones in life or death, failures and pains. Love and trust between them and their horses, their growth and worries of adolescence, their ideas and duties about future society, all of these are like a song of life composed through the journey of 2019.

Yang Lina is a self-taught documentary filmmaker who is a pioneer in the field of Chinese independent documentary film. Yang was a director, a scriptwriter, a documentary producer, served multiple times as a reviewer for domestic and foreign film festivals. Yang stage host and acted in Jia Zhangke’s Platform (2000). Her debut documentary, Old Men (1999) won a number of awards including the Award of Excellence at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, the Jury Prize at Cinéma du Reel, and the Golden Dove Award at DOK Leipzig. Documentary films such as Home Video(2002), Let’s dance together(2007),The Love story of Lao An(2008),My Neighbors & Their Japanese Ghosts(2008) and Wild Grass(2009) have participated in multiple overseas film exhibitions. The representative work of a drama film, the Women's Trilogy, Longing for the Rain(2013), Spring Tide(2018), Song of Spring(2022).

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