About This Film
Tackling the pressures of family and cultural expectations, Robin Wang's six-minute short film explores how these pressures can subvert desires under the semblance of pushing for the greater good of the family unit. Given the short runtime, “Graduation” gets to the point of its message quickly and audiences will easily pick up on the sexual tension between the two young men at the dinner table.
Synopsis
During a graduation celebration, the lives of four Chinese are explored under the societal pressures to move towards prosperity and happy family life. The two boys being celebrated hide their relationship for fear of reprimand and possible shunning from their parents, yet the parents hold their own secrets which show their own human fallacies under oppressive ideals they themselves subscribe to.
