It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.
Joris Ivens
Self
Liu Zhuang
Acting
Wang Delong
Wang Hong
Fu Dalin
Liu Guilian
Chen Zhijian
Zou Qiaoyu
Paul Sergent
Liu Hongyiu
Self - Interpreter (uncredited)
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Self (uncredited)
Henxiang Han
The Fabulous Ice Age
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
To Singapore, with Love
Trophy
Unrest
Whose Streets?
Iverson
To Be Takei
Daguerréotypes
Varda by Agnès
Heart of a Dog
In the Realms of the Unreal
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
Step
Rich Hill
Love, Marilyn
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty