
When the Bough Breaks
Program Running Time
147 min.
Films in Program

(Wei chao)
Directed By: Ji Dan
(China, 2012, 147 mins, HDCAM)
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. One hundred and fifty minutes of the most vivid family drama you’ll ever see.