Southampton - The Parrish Art Museum's winter/spring New Global Cinema series will conclude Friday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m., with a screening of the award-winning Chinese documentary "Last Train Home." The Parrish's guest curator John K. Turnbull will be present to introduce the film.

Directed in classic cinéma-verité style by Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan, "Last Train Home" focuses on one family to illuminate the annual exodus from city to countryside of more than 130 million migrant workers during the week of Chinese New Year.

Like so many of China's rural poor, Changhua and Sugin Zhang leave behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin - now a restless and rebellious teenager - both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents.

According to director Lixin Fan, "Though the Zhangs' story, the film scrutinizes social inequality caused by a nation's industrial endeavor, and how the process is affected by globalization on both a social and humanistic level. By observing the fate of one family, the smallest cell in a fast evolving society, I hope to articulate the complication between a nation's ambition for economic growth and its impact on culture, society, and individual."

"Last Train Home" was named best documentary at half a dozen international film festivals and was, in 2010, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and New Directors/New Films. The running time is 87 minutes. Tickets are $5 for Parrish members, $7 for nonmembers.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.