Reel Asian is proud to co-present Shun Li and the Poet at the Italian Contemporary Film Fesitval!
Reel Asian co-presents Andrea Segre’s Shun Li and the Poet at this year’s Italian Contemporary Film Festival. This intimate and moving tale (starring Zhao Tao) was the recipient of the European Parliament Lux Prize in 2012. The Italian Contemporary Film Festival takes place from June 26 – July 6, 2013.
SHUN LI AND THE POET (IO SONO LI)
Director Andrea Segre
Monday, July 1, 9:30pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox
The festival is also screening this film in Montréal at 8:30pm on June 28 in the Salle Claude Jutra at Cinémathèque Québécoise, and in Vaughan at 9:30pm on July 5 in Cinema 24 at the AMC Interchange.
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome, in the hope of sponsoring her eight-year-old son who lives in China. Suddenly, she is transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet”, has been a regular at her pub for years. The friendship growing between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and local communities as they both interfere with the relationship.
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