If There is a Reason to Study (2016)

People usually believe that focusing on academics and getting a higher educational degree ensures career readiness. However, will the students be able to remember their passion in learning and keep exploring their potential while complying with this belief? This film is a story of a group of Taiwanese alternative school students and their struggle when facing this conventional belief. By tracing their journey from junior high school to college, the director of this film--a 14-year-old alternative school student, YiFan, realized that high-stake testing and the tracking system might be the reason his friends are losing their motivation in learning and the courage to discover their own calling. YiFan even experimented on himself in this conventional system and found himself trapped in this game.