Last Train Home (Gui tu lie che/China) | Click here to watch
(90 min; 2009; Chinese with English subtitles)
Director: Lixin Fan
Multiple award winner including Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Outstanding Achievemnt in Production; Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography; & Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film, Cinema Eye Honors Awards, USA 2011; Best Feature-Length Documentary Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2009; Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2010 for Best Documentary Feature Film; among others
A deeply moving look at an unavoidably fractured family, Lixin Fan’s documentary follows a clan of Chinese migrant workers separated by economic circumstance. The heart of the film is the shaky relationship between the sweatshop-employed parents and their defiant teenage daughter, who ekes out a meagre big city existence.
