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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 · A film by Lixin Fan that follows a couple and their children who work and live in different cities and villages in China. They struggle to reunite for the Lunar New Year and face the challenges of a changing society and economy.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Lixin Fan
- 2010-09-09
Follow a couple who migrate from the city to their village every year to see their children. Watch how they cope with the changing times and the challenges of their family life.
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- Documentary
- Lixin Fan
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.
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.
- Fan Lixin
- Changhua Zhan, Yang Zhang, Suqin Chen
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power.
- 85 min
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the world’s largest human migration. Read more about the family at the center of the documentary Last Train Home.
