Malaysian director seeks to raise awareness of LGBTQ issues

When a society fails to pay attention to a tragedy it is more likely such tragedies will be repeated.

It was that idea that inspired Malaysian director Lim Kean-hian (林峻賢) when he decided to focus his short film «Langit Budak Biru», on the plight faced by LGBTQ students in Malaysian schools, despite knowing that it would likely court controversy in the conservative Muslim country.

That risk has now been rewarded, with the 22-minute film nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at this year’s Golden Horse Awards, one of the major film awards in Chinese language cinema, focustaiwan.tw reports.