The Piano in a Factory

The Piano in a Factory (钢的琴, 2011) — watch online on iFILM. Chinese director Zhang Meng's tragicomedy follows Chen, a divorced steelworker in a shuttered northeastern industrial town who wants custody of his daughter — a girl with one goal: to learn piano.

He can't afford one. So he recruits his laid-off factory crew and builds an instrument from scrap metal on the shop floor. Part workshop heist, part elegy for China's rust belt, the film mixes marching bands and corroded chimneys into something quietly affecting. Stream The Piano in a Factory online on iFILM.