When the Bough Breaks (2013)

Year: 2013
Genres: Documentary
Countries: China
Languages: Mandarin
Runtime: 144 min

Name: When the Bough Breaks
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013
Rating: 3.5

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.