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Break

On National day, Sheng Liming, a junior high school teacher, is bored and sits around in his single-room dormitory. Meanwhile, his former student Dong Jie plans to take a documentary about Sheng's life. During the filming, one of Dong and Sheng' friends tells them about the news that Dong's former classmate Li Yanwu is missing for quite a while. It seems to infuse some fresh excitement into Sheng's difficult holiday. Sheng‘s desire to find Li Yanwu is getting intenser with the hidden aches and pains of life and work. Dong Jie's attitude towards the expression of his film also turns different during the week.

Break

NR 2019
Smile

A young woman has been living alone with her brother since their parents died in an accident. The mentally handicapped brother pursues his hobby, takes countless photos every day with his instant camera and collects newspaper clippings, which gradually end up in the apartment. The sister experiences a gloomy daily life between the monotonous work on the assembly line and the same rituals at home. How much she would like to escape from this daily life, but the dream of New York is not compatible with her obligations...

Smile

2.0 2019
Seven Notes in One Tune

The story takes place in present-day Suzhou, China, in a Jiangnan-style restaurant. There, a 20-year-old migrant worker named A-Xia unexpectedly meets a university student named Mao Guo, who is at the restaurant for a social practice assignment. Set within the rich cinematic space of a southern Chinese eatery, the film presents the lives of ordinary people swept up in the currents of modern society, seen through the lens of sociology student Mao Guo. A-Xia, unfamiliar with social etiquette and institutional rules, nevertheless radiates human warmth and resilience.

Seven Notes in One Tune

9.0 2019
Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人 in Japanese and English Aratani Theatre

So what if... what if a brash American naval officer and a young Japanese girl met and fell in love? How would they communicate? (Certainly not in Italian!) In POP’s most ambitious production to date, Artistic Director Josh Shaw’s long-time dream of a bilingual Madama Butterfly comes to life at The Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo. With a new libretto by Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura, all Japanese roles will be sung in Japanese and all American roles will be sung in English. This is a co-production with Opera in the Heights (Houston). This production is sponsored in part by an Innovations Grant from Opera America.

Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人 in Japanese and English Aratani Theatre

NR 2019
Fragile White Boy

Tim, a troubled recent college graduate and "aspiring writer," is still living at home with his mom and dog, despite his desire to be "the second coming of F. Scott Fitzgerald." He spends his days roaming the house, on the toilet, snorting pain killers and reluctantly having drinks with his old childhood friend, John. When Tim's mom leaves the house to attend the opening of her other son, Lucas' play, she asks her cleaning woman, Isabel, a Latina immigrant, to stay after hours to keep an eye on Tim.

Fragile White Boy

1.0 2019
Gilbert's Little Christmas

An aspiring entrepreneur, Gilbert lost all hope after being dumped on Christmas day. Gilbert decides to kill himself and heads to the mall to buy rope. While there, he discovers how expensive it is to take a picture with the mall Santa and decides on one last act of goodwill — dressing up like Santa himself and offering poor families (“with only one car”) the opportunity to take a picture with him for free. His suicide plans are delayed even further when he’s propositioned mysteriously by an odd fellow to come to his home and help out his wife.

Gilbert's Little Christmas

NR 2019