Last Train Home - Starlight Cinema, Stouffville

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The Zhangs left their ancestral village and their one-year-old daughter to find work in Guangzhou city 16 years earlier. The couple toils in a poorly ventilated, dimly lit garment factory to make money to pay for their daughter's schooling. The Zhangs never complain because they don't have a choice. To have her educated is the only way to give the daughter a better life in the future. Now their daughter is 17, and she only gets to see her parents once a year at the Spring Festival. The rebellious teenager feels lost and neglected since her parents were away all these years. She is convinced that her parents care more about making money than taking care of her. Thus, she quits school, comes down to Guangzhou city, and becomes a young migrant worker, which is exactly what her parents were trying to avoid.

Living in the same city but not talking to each other, the family is shattered by years of misunderstanding. The old tradition of parents making self-sacrifice to better the life of children is brutally challenged by the new social reality. Good will may not always have good result. Nevertheless, hope always sprouts from despair. This Spring Festival, the mother decides to bring the family once again to embark this migrant odyssey to go back. Her mission is to reunite the family and to get the daughter back to school. Love and sacrifice didn't triumph for the past 16 years. Will it succeed this time? ©Tribute.ca

Director: Lixin Fan
Cast: Siqin Chen, Changhua Zhan, Qin Zhang
Year: 2009
Runtime: 85 minutes
Country: Canada, China, UK
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Distributor: KinoSmith

City: Stouffville, Ontario
Circuit Group Name: Starlight Cinema
Circuit Start-up: 2009
Contact: Steven Foster
Phone: (905)640-1900
Email: steven.foster@townofws.ca
Website: nineteenonthepark.com
Screens: 19:00:00, Lebovic Centre for the Arts and Entertainment