Synopsis

Have a Nice Day director Liu Jian is known for his artisan animation style tuning into generational malaise with textured, hand-drawn aesthetics and deadpan realism. His third feature returns to the start of his creative journey: art school. Based on the director’s own experiences, the coming-of-age film captures a meandering moment in time for a circle of art school cohorts engrossed in arts, ideals and themselves while being lost in life and love. Among the talkers, dreamers and drifters is aimless painting student Xiaojun, whose struggle between traditional and modern art mirrors the changing urban values of Chinese society at large in the ’90s.

Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Competition, Berlin International Film Festival