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Last Train Home (2009)

Last Train Home poster
Original title
归途列车
Directed by
Lixin Fan
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 70 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese migrant worker and his wife travel home for the Spring Festival, grappling with the toll of their labor on their distant children.

poignantintimateobservationalheartfeltsoberinghumanizingslow-pacedeye-opening

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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