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.
Every spring, China's 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the Chinese New Year's holidays.
In a March 2010 follow-up 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.
I knew she had a job at a hotel as a bartender and she went back to the factory for a small while and she came to study in a vocational school in Beijing last year for a few months, and then she quit again.
He concluded that due to the film's depiction of the effects of capitalism on the country that "[t]he rulers of China may someday regret that they distributed the works of Marx so generously".
[8] Praising Last Train Home as "a documentary masterpiece", Brian Brooks of IndieWIRE wrote that "filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China's great non-fiction storytellers.
[10] Last Train Home was one of the top five films nominated for the Directors Guild of America Documentary Prize, announced on January 29, 2011 at the 63rd annual DGA Awards Dinner.
Lixin Fan was interviewed by Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC radio program "The Current", on January 19, 2011, talking about Last Train Home.