Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIndonesian director Lucky Kuswandi’s “108 Days” has all the ingredients of an explosive story.
It probes into a school scandal that kindles national outrage, homophobic and racist sentiments, pseudo-nationalism and anti-foreigner rhetoric – all of which are widely in evidence across Asia today.The project, which is being pitched for the first time at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), is a fictional drama.
But it draws on several recent court cases, where truth and facts took a backseat to trial by public opinion.The story kicks off with the accusation that an expatriate teacher had sexually assaulted a pupil.
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