Dir: Andrea Segre
Country: Italy 2011
Language: Italian
Duration: 100 mins
Cert: CLUB
Starring: Zhao Tao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini

Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome, in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Venetian lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman nicknamed ‘the Poet’ by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years.

The friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and native communities, who interfere with this new relationship, which appears to place all concerned in a state of fear. A truly poignant and poetic account of the destructive power of prejudice and friendship in a foreign territory. - Cork Film Festival 2012

Winner – Best First Feature, BFI London Film Festival 2012
Winner – LUX Prize 2012