World Cinema
China
Mandarin
2023
118 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Berlin Int'l Film Festival 2023
World Cinema
China
Mandarin
2023
118 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Berlin Int'l Film Festival 2023
The film is a portrait of youth set on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts in the early 1990s. Against the backdrop of reforms opening China to the Western world, a group of college students live in full swing as they take their first steps into adulthood, where love and friendships are intertwined with artistic pursuits, ideals, and ambitions. Caught between tradition and modernity, they now have to choose who they want to become.
Dong Zijian; Zhou Dongyu; Papi Jiang ; Huang Bo
Lin Shan
Liu Jian
Liu Jian
Li Dan-Feng
Gao Ruifeng
Cui Jian
Chen Li
Yunfan Sun
David Wen-Wei Liang
Alex Liu
Lin Shan
Liu Jian
Lin Shan
Liu Jian
Art Advisor- Lai Baoer
Post- Production- Zhu Changting
Animation Director- Li Jiajia
Key animators- Li Jiajia
Wang Mile
Guo Xiaoruo
Liu Jian
Yang Cheng
Nezha Bros. Pictures Company Limited
Modern Sky Entertainment Company Limited and China Academy of Art
School of Film and Animation
Anaïs Gagliardi
anais@memento-films.com
Liu Jian (China, 1969) majored in Chinese Painting and graduated from the Nanjing Art Institute in 1993. Since then, he has made various works that met with the criteria of modern art and that were presented in some of the most important exhibitions in China and abroad. He is one of the representative artists of Gaudy Art and Conceptual Photography. He began working on animations in 1995 and founded Le-joy Animation Studio in 2007. His first feature animation, Piercing 1, screened in numerous film festivals, including Holland Animation FF, Annecy International Animation FF, and Hong Kong International FF. The film also won Best Animated Feature Film at the 4th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Liu Jian also teaches animation filmmaking at the China Academy of Art. In 2017, his feature animation film Have A Nice Day premieres in competition at the Berlin Film Festival before being screened in more than 50 festivals worldwide including BFI London, Sitges, Thessaloniki and Annecy.
