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Asia Cine-Club: Dear Ex 誰先愛上他的 (2018, Taiwan)🏳️🌈 Pride Month at TicTic — Celebrating Queer Cinema 🏳️⚧️
🗓 Tuesday, June 16 | ⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 Film: 8PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
Directed by Mag Hsu and Hsu Chih-yen, Dear Ex is a sharp, funny, and emotionally layered drama centred around a family conflict following the death of a husband and father who secretly leaves his insurance money to his male partner rather than his wife. Told largely through the perspective of the couple’s teenage son, the film explores grief, resentment, generational conflict, and the complicated emotional realities left behind by hidden lives.
Balancing comedy and melodrama with surprising nuance, Dear Ex refuses simplistic moral divisions, instead presenting every character as flawed, wounded, and deeply human. The film became a major critical and commercial success in Taiwan for its honest treatment of sexuality, family structures, and emotional repression. As part of TicTic’s Pride Month celebration of queer cinema, Dear Ex stands as one of the defining queer family dramas of contemporary Asian cinema.
“Funny, painful and refreshingly humane.”
— The Hollywood Reporter
“A beautifully written film about love, anger and unresolved grief.”
— Screen Daily
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
📽 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8443704/
📽 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/dear-ex/
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Event Venue
TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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