When the Bough Breaks

2011, documentary

144 minutes

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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China

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Chinese

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Ji Dan

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Sha Qing

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Ji Dan

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