Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTransgender drama “Midnight Swan” was named as the best film on Saturday at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy.
The Golden Mulberry prize was awarded by an audience poll after the film’s online screening.The film, directed by Uchida Eiji, is the story of an adolescent girl who moves in with her transgender aunt.
She finds salvation from loneliness through dance, but the decision does not sit easily with her relative who is struggling to be accepted as a woman.
The film previously won the best film prize at the Japan Academy.Second prize also went to a Japanese-made title, Maeda Koji’s comedy “You’re Not Normal Either!”.