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Winner of “Best First Feature” in the London Film Fest, this tender story begins with Shun Li working in a textile factory near Rome. She's slowly paying off the broker who brought her from China to Italy, while trying to save money to bring her young son over. Transferred to work as a bartender in a pub that's a hangout for local fishermen, one day she meets Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The Poet." A delicate friendship grows between them, but gossip soon threatens their innocent relationship. Variety calls the film “exquisite” and “rapturous.”

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Andrea Segre | Italy | 2011 | 100min
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shun-li-and-the-poet
film trailer: 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/jz-pC9mA8Xk?feature=player_detailpage
Theater1: 
Harris Theater
theater1 showtime1: 
Sun, Nov 11 - 4:45pm
theater1 showtime2: 
Fri, Nov 16 - 7:00pm