Two male students fall in love in the midst of homophobia, familial pressures, and social stigma in the backdrop of post-martial law Taiwan. It also won the Queer Cannes in the same year. The film won Best Screenplay at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Set in 18th century France, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a story of the daughter of a French aristocrat who develops an affair with the painter commissioned to create her wedding portrait.
As Trisha’s friends dress her up as a different person at every night of her wake, they look back on her life and her struggles and victories as a transgender woman in Filipino society. Die Beautiful is a Filipino film about Trisha, a transgender woman who dies after being crowned winner of a gay beauty pageant.
