This month’s Independent Film Movement
selection is Shun Li and the Poet. Shun Li works in a textile factory
near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to
Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her.
She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small
town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local
fishermen, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The
Poet." A tender, delicate friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi. But
gossip soon threatens their innocent relationship, a bond that had once
transcended two very different, yet not at all distant cultures.
Italian and Mandarin with English Subtitles
100 minutes
