Chinese director Cai Chengjie will follow up his Rotterdam prize-winning first feature with “Splash,” a new project that daringly takes on the topic of sexual assault.
It has been selected as one of 20 narrative films to participate in this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.The film will tell the story of 24 hours in the life of a female graduate student after she has been sexually assaulted, capturing her experiences from her point of view as she encounters different responses to the event from her parents, her boyfriend, her friends, the police, the university faculty, and the media.
Cai, who was inspired to start the script last year by a real-life case that happened to a woman of his acquaintance, writes that he hopes to capture “the unspeakable pain women suffer and the exploitation they face in society.”It’s an ambitious agenda for a filmmaker hailing from a
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