Focus Taiwan
Date: 02/29/2020
By: Lin Yu-li and Emerson Lim

Berlin, Feb. 28 (CNA) The Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮) clinched yet another achievement on Friday with his film "Days" (日子), winning a prestigious prize at the Teddy Award in Berlin, an international film honor for movies with an LGBT theme.

"Days," a story of two men, one middle-aged and one young, who develop unexpected feelings for each other after a chance encounter and have an intimate interlude, won the Jury Award.

The two-hour long film is intentionally unsubtitled and has minimal dialogue, along with Tsai's well-known long, slow shots.

During the award ceremony at the Volksbühne Berlin, the audience burst into applause when the organizer introduced Taiwan as the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage last May.   [FULL  STORY]