When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks

3.5 |
2h 24min

Released

Documentary
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.
When the Bough Breaks

Story

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.

Directors

Ji Dan, Sha Qing, Ji Dan,

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