Lü cao di (Mongolian Ping Pong)

A young boy, named Bilike, finds a ping pong ball in a river near his home in the Gobi Desert. He asks a lot of people what it is but nobody knows. His grandmother tells him it's a "Glowing Pearl". He and his friends find out that it is a ping pong ball after watching the television. He and his friend both want the ball so they end up cutting it in half. At the end, he gets sent off to school in Beijing and when he goes to the bathroom he walks into a room full of ping pong players. I thought this movie was inspiring because these little kids travel through the desert and almost die to find out about this ball. Their friend goes out looking for them and finally finds them. This movie is about true friendship. In their culture, they punish their children by whacking the children's butts with rods or sticks. The children are also allowed to roam wherever they please because their neighbors and friends live miles into the desert.

"The story is a gentle art film about a Mongolian boy who discovers a ping pong ball and his journey of discovery about its origins."

-Wikipedia

"Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them. They are excited to hear that their object is the 'national ball of China'. The determined young boys set off to return the ball to the Chinese capital."

-www.imdb.com