Senior Year

Study hard! Move ahead! Be patriotic! These slogans are drilled into the minds of Chinese boarding school students as they struggle to pass their university admission exams. With most of these teens hailing from poverty-stricken rural villages, their tuition for school is paid through the blood, sweat and tears of their parents. As such, they must literally study from day to night, walking up three hours before class to recite propagandist passages that encourage them to stay loyal to the nation. with already no personal space of their own, even the teachers intrude upon every facet of their lives. It's a harrowing portrait of a new generation raised as if they were sheep.