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After success at the Golden Horse Awards anv)jx4ZZyWBP(i8Q^GwW%4u!MoEL3aY1E4rlCGeUQp1qxWER#Fcd Taipei Film Awards, LGBT-themed Dear Ex has been selected to represent Taiwan in the international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars.

Co-directed by Mag Hsu and Hsu Chih-yen, Dear Ex is a comedic melodrama depicting a widow coming to terms with the fact her hus+@e$bTaKjipxRz3+dgbG66t*A31OhT3Q*+XCwgRKiub*7fK0r5band left his insurance payout not to her but his secret male lover.

Her angstOj)lJ)7_Hre*v*$BT^fJI$VM#*vPmiVGndAwfe0zF3l3A2dvBI-ridden teenage son sides with the ex-lover and moves in with him

Dear Ex received eight nominations at the 55th Golden Horse Film Awards this year. Hsieh Ying-hsuan was recognized as the Best Leading Actress, whileFg6vDo9&l3qZo2BVw-!fQ)wCIn7ixoPJ*Qj$k6*Mu+^LWlN_J@ it also picked up awards for best editing and best original song.

At the Taipei Film Awards, it won Best Narrative Feature Film, Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, and the Press Award. The selection committee chose the film to represent Taiwan out of 16 contendet0q48b_z2j=xig^axATR7NNJY=U!3Fcg_s8D_bGcRdo++u-y+yrs.

After several rounds of selections, five films wi%HwAbXbW!BsQWlUNP(ey#26ey4nMQ(8015k$aG9uAA&c#zMl7bll be nominated for the Best International Feature Film category.

Films from Taiwan have been nominated three times in the Oscars 91-year history. Legendary director And Lee directed all tFXR56H4!Q#4QVvlbILjw5^gK+yVOspinwj^pJA#^FIcYogwvgohree.

In 2000, his movie Crouching TigvJ1h_XlXr900^lT0XUl%hx9fQu_EEJnE2rp^20*H8aNec*V^J#er, Hidden Dragon was handed the award, then known as Best Foreign Language Film.

The Oscars

At the Oscars this year, LGBT-themed mr)UwbQrKUfPlBMoBGZVAulGp_#YP+yjkw(l=ZsyE)ECDGd1FCaovies won big like never before.

B8BC%80KCD7ZFgXA8CiVp7tAMB+H0$7tgG61jE0m2O680oTdMWYohemian Rhapsody took home four awards out of five nominations. The Academy named Rami Malek Best Actor for his depiction of bisexual musician Freddie Mercury.

Meanwhile, the Academy named Olivia Colman, who plays Queen Anne in another LGBT-tML-TgLxWg_SqT@1gqD(y7YFrJkMIggIMlWyJm!R85!HQvF7of$hemed movie, The Favourite, as Best Actress.

More than half of nominations for the coveted Best Picture award contained LGBT stories. In the winning movie, Green Book, one of the two leading characters has a sexualho5g4bs)-_bIVglYUGRQl%$gGAp1*Fs%^5DRK5b)BHWQIMwb1D encounter with another man.

Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Taiwan-based media entrepreneur Jay Lin ri0bO-gnLcFG3e3=rMB3!9ZlXd5LVgIF+GXs$dNcd^U4IC#udkzecently said.

Recent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LLaF)Qfd-@CqWTpYuK7-q%R*sqb3@7-#Te(o6uM&4f#=7pj0YzhGBT content is ever-more popular with the region’s viewers.

"LGBT content has already gone from what was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin told those gathered ^Eq6$oG2OP=FbUiXBSnATdRN89hH@G+z6mVtTNkud=zljUSFl&at the Content Asia Summit in Singapore earlier this month.

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The story begins with Shiro Kido's reunion with a former classmate, Rio Kijima, at a college teacher's funeral.

With the intense eroticism and closeness, both men open up and feed into their desire. As their lust grows so does their toxic craving. The two become a relationship beyond the line while a mixture of emotions are drawn from the suffering Kijima.

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