Cai Shangjun on Returning to Venice With ‘The Sun Rises on Us All’ and Exploring Morality in Contemporary China

Silver Lion winner Cai Shangjun is back at the Venice Film Festival with competition title “The Sun Rises on Us All,” a restrained drama about guilt, complicity and the elusive possibility of forgiveness.

The film stars Xin Zhilei (“Blossoms Shanghai”) as Meiyun, whose life is upended when she encounters Zhang Songwen (“The Pioneer”) as Baoshu, the former lover who once went to prison for a crime she committed. Feng Shaofeng (“Wolf Totem”) co-stars as Qifeng.

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