Last Train Home

Last Train Home (归途列车, 2009) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Lixin Fan over three years of following the Zhang family. Parents Changhua and Suqin work at a garment factory in Guangdong and make the return trip to their village in Sichuan once a year — for the Chinese New Year.

That journey takes seven days in packed trains, shared with 130 million other migrant workers doing the same run. Their daughter Qin grew up without them and the annual reunions have long since curdled into arguments. Fan shoots without narration — just the crush of railway stations, the silence in crowded berths, and the price of China's rise counted one family at a time. Stream Last Train Home (2009) online on iFILM.