Last Train Home (film)

Last Train Home simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Gut Lich literally Homeward Train is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila AungThwin of EyeSteelFilm. It won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and has been distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US.

Working over several years, director Lixin Fan travelled with one couple who has embarked on these annual treks for almost two decades. Like many of Chinas rural poor, the Zhangs left their native village of Huilongdisambiguation needed in Sichuan province and their newborn daughter to find work in Guangzhou in a garment factory foryears and see her only once a year during the Spring Festival. Their daughter Qin, now a restless and rebellious teenager, resents her parents absence and longs for her own freedom away from school and her rural hometown, much to the dismay of her parents. She eventually leaves school, against the wishes of her parents, to work in the city.In a March 2010 followup interview, director Lixin Fan reveals that the Zhangs are still working in the factory and Qin telephoned, but did not visit, for the New Year. ........

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