China’s meteoric rise to economic power is brilliantly captured in this deceptively modest film that follows the story of a poor migrant couple, Changhua and Sugin Zhang, who are forced to move miles away from their rural village so that they might squeak out a living in a big-city factory, thus leaving their two young children behind to be raised by their grandmother. Once a year, during the Chinese New Year, the Zhangs—along with more than 130 million other people—attempt to reunite with their family back home, joining a mass exodus that constitutes the world’s largest human migration. Through its close and heartbreaking observation, LAST TRAIN HOME reveals the human cost of China’s economic ascendance.

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LAST TRAIN HOME
Zeitgeist Films
Nadja Tennstedt
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