When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks

季丹JI Dan
2011
  • China
147min
Colour
  • Blu-Ray
G

When the Bough Breaks

Synopsis

A group of migrant children have grown up next to a rubbish dumpsite in Daxing in the southern suburbs of Beijing. As high- rise buildings begin to encroach upon their shanty settlement and threaten to swallow up their makeshift hut, the children are faced with a predicament. Should they continue their studies or submit to the early onset of adulthood?

Festivals & Awards
2011 Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival
2012 MoMA Documentary Fortnight