The uploader of this 94-minute documentary titled it, “If you are younger than 18, no need to watch this. But if you’ve been through Gaokao [college entrance exams], take a look. Documentary: Senior Year (高三).”

On Youku Buzz, we’ve talked about what Gaokao is and how Chinese students feel about it before. But the 50 second catharsis of flying paper wasn’t enough to convey the extent to which millions of Chinese students suffer before going on to college.

Thanks to the English subtitles, you can follow the storyline easily. Senior Year was produced by Zhou Hao in 2005. With a class president from a poor village, parents who have been farming for decades, and high school students from different families fighting for the same goal in life, the documentary recorded the last year of a class in No. 1 High School of Wuping, Fujian Province.

This film won the best documentary award at The 30th Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2006.