Last Train Home

A family embarks on an annual, arduous journey to reunite with their distant family and revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power. Every spring, 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the Chinese New Year's holidays, a tradition that has become a testament to the human cost of rapid economic growth. Working over several years, director Lixin Fan traveled with one couple who has embarked on these annual treks for almost two decades, capturing the emotional toll of separation and the struggles of rural poverty in this poignant documentary.