When the Bough Breaks

Original title: 危巢

Duration: 144 min

Release date: 2013-01-01

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Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an education, is exhilarating, heart breaking, life affirming, shocking, despairing and ecstatic, all at once.

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