We're excited to present Art College 1994, the follow-up to director Liu Jian's 2017 cult classic Have A Nice Day. The film is sublime and subtle; gorgeously animated and timeless while beautifully tethered to its period setting. It's evocative of the best hangout movies in how generously it welcomes you into its free flowing conversations. Art College 1994 had a too-brief run in theaters earlier this year and is worthy of your big screen attention.

"A wistful slice of comic-sad social realism somewhere in the region of Eric Rohmer wistful romances, Richard Linklater ensemble stories, and Sixth Generation semi-underground Chinese filmmakers like Jia Zhangke....feels like a lost graphic novel you find in a dive bar and love until the pages fall apart."

- Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter

Synopsis

1990s, China. A motley gang of Chinese art students fill their languid days with inchoate musings about aesthetics, philosophy and the promised ‘good’ life after graduation. A portrait of youth, the 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.

With a strikingly distinctive animation style, heightened by the resonant voiceovers of Bi Gan and Jia Zhangke, the film serves as a captivating lens through which we glimpse the inherent contradictions in a country presciently anticipating the imminent turn of the globalized millennium.