Last Train Home

So moved by Last Train Home (归途列车), a film by Canadian citizen Lixin Fan (范立欣) which follows the Zhang’s annual Chinese New Year’s trip to visit their children who are left in grandmother’s care in Sichuan’s Guang’an city, Huilong village (回龙村), while they work in a garment factory in Guangzhou. Beautifully heartbreaking and masterful in capturing both the intimate story of an individual family and the huge macro forces reshaping Chinese society. Shown here as part of the Country/City/Home Chinese Film Festival presented by the Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington. If you have the opportunity to see it — don’t miss it.
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