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\tLast train home — Gu\u012btú lièch\u0113<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \tLast Train Home (Chinese: \u5f52\u9014\u5217\u8f66; pinyin: Gu\u012btú Lièch\u0113; literally "Homeward Train") is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan<\/em> and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. Last Train Home won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and was distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US territory.<\/p>\n \n \tDirector: Lixin Fan (Pinyin: Fàn Lìx\u012bn)<\/strong><\/p>\n \tBrief Intro<\/strong><\/p>\n \tEvery spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday.<\/p>\n \tWorking over several years in classic cinéma vérité style, director Lixin Fan<\/em> travelled with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like many of China's rural poor, the Zhangs have left their native village and their newborn daughter to find work in Guangzhou in a garment factory for 16 years and see her only once a year during the Spring Festival. Their daughter Qin, now a restless and rebellious teenager- bitterly 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. Emotionally charged and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home examines one fractured family to shed light on the human cost of China's ascendence as an economic superpower.<\/p>\n \n \tthe Zhang family <\/strong><\/p>\n \tIn a March 2010 follow-up interview, director Lixin Fan<\/em> reveals that the Zhangs are still working in the factory and Qin telephoned, but did not visit, for the New Year. More recently, in September 2011, Fan said that Qin was now a student in Beijing, and that while Qin's mother is back on the farm, her father still works at the factory.<\/p>\n \tAwards<\/strong><\/p>\n \t2009: Won Best Feature Documentary at the 22nd annual International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
\t2009: Won Cinémathèque Québécoise Best Quebec film award at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM)
\t2010: Won Golden Gate Award in the Investigative Documentary Feature Category at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFiFF)
\t2010: Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival
\t2010: Official Selection at New Directors\/New Films
\t2010: Won Best Documentary Feature at the RiverRun International Film Festival
\t2010: Won Grand Prix at EBS International Documentary Festival<\/p>\n