The San Diego Asian Film Foundation is proud to present the poignant documentary “Last Train Home”. Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic vert style Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the award-winning hit documentary “Up the Yangtze”) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China’s rural poor, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin – now a restless and rebellious teenager – both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home’s intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China’s ascendance as an economic superpower.

If you’re in San Diego, here’s the details on the screening:

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 7:00PM
UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center
7510 Hazard Center Drive
San Diego, CA 92108

It’s a fascinating documentary about sacrifice and the way of life in China. You will gain a new perspective on the goods from China and the people who make the products.

Last Train Home screening in San Diego