我毕业了

Introduced by Dr.  Siqi Tu.

Followed by a talk with Shi Jian 时间

An independent documentary produced by filmmakers employed within the state television system. It offers a rare portrait of Beijing’s university students almost three years after June 4th, making them the final cohort to have experienced the events of 1989. The students candidly reflect on love, sex, careers, emigration, and the political rupture that shaped their emotional lives. 

Siqi Tu (屠思齐)is a Chinese sociologist at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, where her research focuses on social inequality, work, and everyday governance in contemporary China. Through long-term fieldwork, she examines how institutional change is experienced at the level of households, communities, and ordinary lives.

Shi Jian (时间) is a documentary filmmaker, editor, and producer who worked for decades within state television, while repeatedly testing its limits. After co-directing works such as Tiananmen (1991) and I Have Graduated, he returned to independent filmmaking following his retirement in 2021, most recently completing My Grandfather Liu Wencai (2023).