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Last Train Home (Chinese: 归途列车) is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. It won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and has been distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US.
Sep 9, 2010 · Last Train Home: Directed by Lixin Fan. With Changhua Zhang, Suqin Chen, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang. A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future.
Last Train Home is a haunting, vivid documentary exploring the human toll of China's economic boom in intimate, unforgettable detail. Annually, an estimated 130 million factories workers in China...
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Feb 8, 2013 · Set against the backdrop of the world's largest annual human migration, Last Train Home follows Changhua Zhang and his wife Suqin, factory workers who travel...
Last Train Home draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in this desperate annual migration. Sixteen years ago, the Zhangs abandoned their young children to find work in the city, consoled by the hope that their wages would lift their children into a better life.
A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
Sep 14, 2010 · Shot over three years, Last Train Home deals with an amazing social fact -- every single Chinese New Year, 130 million migrant workers leave the cities and return home to their rural villages.
