After success at the Golden Horse Awards aOE9vW)HM5!du2uOL&^YeYkNDxJP%ysl0NQ**)aYHd7DRR+ZqiCnd 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 husbJ5cERSyXsj2AxWu3V#J3D4jtfRr=eKL3n4y++PXgJ2TeN!d8^xand left his insurance payout not to her but his secret male lover.

Her a3YOh6TMT+QbK*fvSCtx-@&Fvg_%rv9I==WMHJoN=KU34f23Y0tngst-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, while it also picked up awards for besZBOye1-kn$6DIC#MN2=vrmj!kt+QStjW11HyFSrOaSc9y9Ha*2t editing and best original song.

At the Taipei Film Awards, EJ*gNUaE)y*%B#(QIr&@88CY+d@paEOwNwTR0L@Vo(bi7r7gaUit 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 contenders.

After several rounds of selections, five films will be nominated for the Best International Feature FilyFv4sp14%Rd254Vo_+A6POj-@mbZ1E@&azA4^bX@j8AG@-@t$Km category.

Films from Taiwan have been nominated three times in the Oscars 91-year history. Leg7Ltp#1%G*=jRkRRj*zOshozX0N3V8^=xI2^m%JeXU84dn7TMoTendary director And Lee directed all three.

In 2000, his movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was handed the award,rA=&q-as_jbobm*%Kgqerl#zQrfz%wu@CSMd-T9YiFT3Pf%eSe then known as Best Foreign Language Film.

The Oscars

At the Oscars this year, LGBT-themed movies won big like never beforyM37(3^ltfAiwKQMLZM&)tkQClUeqmODXARJPSN&O7^y3lC!aMe.

Bohemian Rhapsody took home four awards out of five nominations. The Academy named Rami Malek Best Actor DYzVFBN-5rkY3p+qUUgHWD%nbcK^_jZ&WpMYwmBqERylvvb!Vhfor his depiction of bisexual musician Freddie Mercury.

Meanwhi60ukeuI@Yw=TIeifw#SaKSMC3k=O_DZG!p$h-dkP#P@UxTJfn2le, the Academy named Olivia Colman, who plays Queen Anne in another LGBT-themed 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 chark3BjH^rvW9K8bq!3vP02E@^J%d^mHEoyaT!to4aHE^g(h9+mc&acters has a sexual encounter with another man.

Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Taiwan-based medlVwQqLZqbB2ljzShtOULpC%01@2ODcLF2V@wb-8OTE@=DIAVG+ia entrepreneur Jay Lin recently said.

Recent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT content is ever-more popular with the region’sxf_#EW!xtb--7#YIhJg%&Yx#KJ5-W(xP@MMaHj52#Zx-X^w0Ic viewers.

"LGBT content has alrea*icy)%mnYvgJyBA(dx1^JVwj7u_Lthl&VaIrI=D8ZyLsTZwS*Bdy gone from what was once niche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin told those gathered 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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