The Chinese-Canadian film Last Train Home by Lixin Fan has won the main award at IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
The documentary is about the gruelling journey undertaken each year by countless Chinese workers from the new industrial areas to their families in the countryside. John Appel's The Player picked up the first Dioraphte IDFA Award for Dutch Documentary. The jury also awarded a Special Jury Award to Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith for The Most Dangerous Man in America (USA).
Prior to the award ceremony, Amsterdam alderman Carolien Gehrels officially launched IDFA TV, the online documentary channel where documentaries can be seen all year round, free of charge. IDFA, the world's largest documentary festival, was held for the 22nd time.
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In reality most migrant workers come home to see their children only every 6 years. Their children often live completely on their own in the forgotton mountain villages (if not living with relatives). If you want to see a film about their life, watch the film "with the left behind children" at the following link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361385272302074701&ei=WyyBS762F...
This film (54 minutes) was shown on the Yunnan documentary filmfestival (Yunfest) in 2009, and was causing there major discussions (http://www.yunfest.org/yunfest09/e-community/10.htm)
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