If you’re getting sick of comic-book movies–I’m looking at you, “Wanted”–don’t forget that the fine film series at Webster University continues during the summer-vacation months. Thursday through Sunday there are two films that I recommend. One’s a carnival documentary, the other is a Chinese docudrama.

Virginia Lee Hunter, a photography instructor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, spent a decade documenting the neon-lit lives of carnival roughnecks for her photo book “Carny: Americana on the Midway.” Hunter then served as the cinematographer for a documentary version, which screens Thursday at 8 p.m. in Moore Auditorium. Hunter will answer questions after the screening. (I’ve got one: How do I win that teddy bear?)

Over the weekend, the film is “Still Life,” a docudrama  about displaced peasants in the shadow of the massive Three Gorges dam project. It was directed by Jia Zhang-Ke (”Platform”),  the one young Chinese filmmaker you need to know for cocktail-party purposes.  The maverick directors’ other subjects have included alienated teens in the provinces (“Unknown Pleasures”) and bored workers at a wonders-of-the-world theme park (“The World”). “Still Life,” which won the grand prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, screens Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m.